BIG BATTLESHIPS.
VULNERABLE TO AIRCRAFT. ADMIRALTY’S POLICY CRITICISED. BY CABLE— PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPYROHT LONDON, October 10. A slashing indictment of Admiralty policy is presented in E. P. Spanner’s new book “Armaments and Non-Com-batants. ’ ’ “The fact that the author was a former member of the Admiralty corps of constructors and is an architect and engineer of repute,’’ says the naval correspondent of the “Daily News,’’ “lends weight t-n his views. Mr. Spanner contends that Britain’s spendings upon her Navy are no longer equal to the task of the defence of trade, while the building programme is based on fallacious principles. “lie says that the biggest- battleship must be a victim to aircraft and dismisses the Admiralty’s claim that the Nelson, Rooney ano Hood are torpedoproof as false. A single torpedo in the stern would leave the Nelson as helpless as a log. The big guns are inaccurate and non-efficient. “On the contrary, the aircraft secure 60 per cent, of hits. He pictures devastation by such an attack.’’
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 13 October 1927, Page 5
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