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PLEA FOR H.M.S. TIGER

ADMIRAL OPPOSES SCRAPPING. MOST EFFICIENT SHIP BUILT (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) LONDON, April G. Admiral H. B. Pelly, who commanded the Tiger from 1914 to 1916, makes a. striking plea that the Admiralty •should not scrap the Tiger but should keep her as a training ship. The Tiger ns the fast big coal-burning warship. “The art of handling ooal should be kept alive in the navy as the most desirable British fuel that can be used, says Admiral Pelly. “It is unsafe to keep all our eggs in a foreign basket, ■as would be the ease if we relied on foreign oil fuel.” Admiral Pelly considers the Tiger xs •stilll all-r.ou.nd the most efficient ship ever built.

A London message of April stated that the battleship Tiger, one of Admiral! Beatty’s famous “Cat” squadron, which fought at the battles of the Dogger Bank and Jutland, when she was* .blit 21 times, would arrive at Devonport shortly in readiness for scrapping. In her last commission with the Atlantic fleet, the Tiger fired her 13.0 in. guns, and, finally, a fortnigilit ago, her last salvo made a “straddle,” which was as good as the newest warship could have made.

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Hawera Star, Volume L, 8 April 1931, Page 5

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PLEA FOR H.M.S. TIGER Hawera Star, Volume L, 8 April 1931, Page 5

PLEA FOR H.M.S. TIGER Hawera Star, Volume L, 8 April 1931, Page 5

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