ELECTRIC MINE-LAYER.
PROPELLED BY DIESEI. ENGINES. LONDON, January 12. The Daily Telegraph says that the new electric mine layer Adventure is the only warship propelled by Diesel engines with electrical transmission. It is also the first. British ship designed expressly for mine laying. During the war, mines accounted for tvdentythree per cent of capital ships and cruisers, fifty-seven per cent, of destroyers, and twenty-seven pci cent of submarines. Altogether 400 British Warships, and auxiliary craft, and 1121,000 tons of merchant shipping were destroyed. The adventure is 7260 tons, 520 feet long. He armament is restricted feet long. Iler armament is restricted to 4.7 inch, quick firers. Weight is saved enabling 1000 mines to Ke carried, -which is four times the capacity of any previous mine layer. Turbines of 40,000 horse power, drive the vessel at a speed of 27} knot?', but the Diesel electric engines, 'making 14 knots, will be used for cruising. , ( J_i j ,t *; ?
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Grey River Argus, 13 January 1928, Page 3
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