NAVAL TRAGEDY.
© LOSS OP, VALERIAN. REFLECTION ON ADMIRALTY. BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION -COPY'EIGHI LONDON, Nov. 8. ‘ 1 The loss of the sloop Valerian was indirectly due to naval economies,” said -Commander A. Marsden, when addressing the Women’s -Patriotic League. “-We ' need an efficient navy,” he said. “The Valerian class of sloops was built under wartime pressure for a particular purpose, or they would not otherwise have been sent for foreign service. She was a weak ship, with a single propellor, and low-powered engines. A more suitable vessel would not have sunk in the typhoon. The Government made the naval strength apparently greater by estimating ships’ lives at twenty, instead of fifteen, years. “The Washington Conference,” he said, “works to the disadvantage of Britain, because, while the c4uiser tonnage was limited to ten tffounnd, there is no limit to the numbers.irary Powermight build. Not even the air force has lessened the need for battleships.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 10 November 1926, Page 5
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152NAVAL TRAGEDY. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 10 November 1926, Page 5
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