Plastic Armour For Ships
The war-time invention of plastic armour for ships has earned an award of £9500 for Mr R. Edward Terrell, a former captain in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve. The armour consisted of slabs of bituminous material impregnated with chips of hard stone and backed by thin steel-plate. It cost £l2 10s a ton, compared with £l5O for armour plating. At the end of the war 3000 merchant vessels and 1000 naval vessels, some of them American, had been’ fitted.r-London, March 10.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 March 1949, Page 8
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