REBUILT CRUISER

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 140, 15 May 1936, Page 9

REBUILT CRUISER

THE MODERNISED REPULSE. MOST EFFECTIVE IN NAVY. SEAPLANES CARRIED. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received May 15, 8.30 a.m. LONDON, May 14. The Sun-Herald Service says the battle cruiser Repulse, which has been reconstructed after 3} years at a cost of £1,400,000, embodies more air power and a greater degree of defence than any other vessel in the British Navy. The Repulse is the first of Britain’s capital units to be rebuilt, in accordance with up-to-date principles. Fifty feet of superstructure abaft the second funnel have been removed to accommodate an aircraft catapult extending the full width of the deck. A lofty hangar is built on either side of the deck. The Repulse will go to the Mediterranean on June 8, carrying four seaplanes, two in the hangar and two on the deck. Hitherto no British warship has carried over two. The Renown is returning to Portsmouth to he similarly refitted. BRITISH DESTROYERS. EXPANSION OF LIMITS. LONDON, May 14. Mr Stanley Baldwin (Prime Minister) announced in the House of Commons that negotiations were progressing with the foreign Governments concerned in the London Naval Treaty for an increase in Britain’s destroyer tonnage beyond treaty limits, for which the Government believed it had a clear case.