ON THE SEAS
new battleship.
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LONDON, April 23. The naval correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says it can now be revealed that the Prince of Wales, a sister-ship to the King George V, has J °S V is a 35.000-lon ship, carrying 10 14-inch guns. Tne first mention of the King Ge °J g jV being in service was when the snip took Lord Halifax to the United States in January to take up his appointment as British Ambassador m Washington. TANKER. TORPEDOED RUGBY, April 24. An Admiralty communique states: A heavily-laden oil tanker of over 10,000 tons, has been torpedoed ana sunk by a British submarine while endeavouring to run the blockade. SHIPBUILDING ACTIVITIES
RUGBY, April 25. Shipping circles in London, reviewing the Empire’s extensive shipbuilding programme, point out that m addition to the increasing output m Canada and Australia, several new tramp ships are now under construction at Hong Kong, where facilities have already been extended. Small craft for coastal trade are being bunt at Singapore, while the dockyards of South Africa had been working at full pressure to speed up repairs, and the South African Government has set up a new organisation to eliminate congestion at the larger ports. It is also stated that since the beginning of the war “shipyards at Auckland and other New Zealand ports have been working at high pressure on the construction of ships for coastal trade, the building of minesweepers, the conversion of liners into transport and hospital ships, and the equipping of merchant vessels for self-defence.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 April 1941, Page 7
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