SEA AND THE AIR.
ADMIRAL SIMS’S VIEWS
DOOM OF THE BATTLESHIP. WASHINGTON, Nov. 28. “It is a foregone conclusion that ; if an aeroplane-carrier met a battleship at sea there would be nothing left of the battleship. Recent tests have proved that aeroplanes can sink battleships,” said Admiral W. S. Sims, before the Colonel Mitchell courtmartial. The fiery admiral who commanded the United States naval force s in European waters during th e period of the Great War, arrived unexpectedly and opened with broadsides immediately. “That the battleship is the_ backbone of the fleet is piffle!” he ejaculated. “We haive a navy without a definite policy,’’ he added, and proceeded to criticise the sending cf the dirigible Shenandoah on her fatal cruise.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 5 December 1925, Page 16
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