PRACTICALLY UNSINKABLE.
DESIGN FOR GERMANY’S NEW CRUISER. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT LONDON, March 28. The “Daily TelegraphV ’ naval correspondent says that the design lor Germany’s 10,000-ton vessel represents an innovation in naval construction. The .steel is of the highest quality and electric welding is employed instead of rivets, thus combining great strength and extraordinary lightness. It will have Diesel engines of astonishing power, but. the radius is limited, as the type was designed lor tins Baltic and the North Sea. The hull is so subdivided that the vessel is virtually unsinkable. The shin’s superstructure is reduced to a minimum. It is really a sen-going motor-driven monitor able to navigate waters inaccessible to an ordinary battleship. yet able to engage a dreadnought with good prospects of success.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 30 March 1928, Page 5
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