NEW BATTLESHIP.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 5 February 1927, Page 7

NEW BATTLESHIP.

TRIPLE’ TURRETS

ST R UCTURE LIKE KEEP 01

CASTLE.

i -nc two new British baLt.cxiffpv. i«j\iitoy anu Aetson vviiicli are t-u euici eeiv.w tins year, will he extraordinary -luoiiing trait.

lit tne new issue of Jane’s figuring Simps, the Just authentic pliutogi apksi as yet released by the Admiralty are reproduced. they isliovv chat the heavy guns will be carried in three triple lurieU. (cacs. mounting three- ldin guns jlun.va.id. A gie-at armoured .structure, lor ah lix world like the keep or a. mediaeval ca-s-Lu, rises amidships and lias repiaceo tffe okl-iashiuned conning tovvei. When completed they vv iff i,u un unxa.iy ugly vessels. Dr. L’arkes. it Tiiiiher able in this oxccptio.i-j.ny lim issue of “Fighting, Ships ’ to give r photograph and drawings ol the new British' armoured cruisers of 10,D0',: tons. They are distinctly disappointing in comparison with new United States ships- of the same size, of which also for the first time, particulars arc given. The British ships- carry eight 6;u and lour 4in guns; the American ten sir and six din. The British boilers' and machinery are apparently of norma! type, whereas in the American vessels extra high pressures are adopted. U.S. ADOPT BRITISH STYLE. One remarkable change in the appearance of the older United States b.il tleships is recorded. The basketm; is being abandoned a.n<l replaced hv tripod masts ■which are virtually of l!> British pattern. The change has already been carried out in the Texas. A direction in which the American Nary has gone fast ahead is in the development of aircraft fittings. Thus the new cruisers carry each two catapults foil launching seaplanes, of which two are provided. They can be released hv this means' 'at a speed of 60 miles at lieu r.

“Fighting Ships’ is more than ever indispensable for study of all naval question.-*, and' litis pb/itographs- and drawings are complete and technically !«' rfeet.