GIANT WARSHIP.
11. M. S. R.OD NEY 1 1 AD NCH ED . »Y o> PLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT LONDON, Aug. 14. Britain’s £7,000,000 battleship, the Rodney, the largest in the world, left the Mersey, where it was built, for Portsmouth for gunnery and speed trials. The keel was laid in 1922 and the vessel was launched in 1925. .She carries nine 16-inch guns.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 15 August 1927, Page 5
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