MOTOR BATTLESHIPS.
LORD FISHER!'S DREAM. NAVY AND DIESEL ENGINES. LONDON, Sept. to. The curious phrase, “Under licence of ia> German company,” which appears in tlhe 'announcement that the Admiralty is building: a. new submarine de'potehip, is explained by t‘he Daily News. It refers .to the latest Augs’berg pattern‘of Diesel engine. The Daily News points out that, the 'la.te Lord 'Fisher, even in 1911, criticised the Admiralty, for refusing, to adopt Diesel, engines, when he said.he ■wanted a design, for .a. motor battleship with no funnels and no smoke, and employing ta. handful of chauffeurs, instead ’of hundreds of stokers and engineers. 'At present the only vessels of the navy equipped with Diesel engines are subm ari nes and monitors.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 27 September 1926, Page 8
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119MOTOR BATTLESHIPS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 27 September 1926, Page 8
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