NEW BATTLESHIP
FOR FRANCE. (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, Nov. 16. The “Daily Telegraph’s’’ naval expert says: France’s reply to the German pocket battleship is a 26,000-ton cruiser, which is included in the 1931 programme, instead of the 23,000-ton vessel already proposed. The larger size is due to the substitution of nine 13.4 guns, being practically equal to the British fifteen inches. The now vessel will cost over six million sterling. Construction will mark the end of the battleship holiday, .which has now lasted nearly nine years, as no 10,000 tonner has been built .since the British Nelson and Rodney in 1922.
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Grey River Argus, 18 November 1931, Page 8
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