SEA AND THE AIR
ADMIRAL SIMS’ VIEWS. DOOM OF THE BATTLESHIP. WASHINGTON November 18. “It is a foregone conclusion that if an aeroplane-carrier met a battleship at sea there would be nothing left of the battleship. Recent tests have proved conclusively that aeroplanes can sink battleships,” said Admiral W. S. Sims, before the Colonel Mitchell court-martial. The fiery admiral who commanded the United States naval forces in European waters during the period of the Great War, arrived unexpectedly and opened with broadsides immediately. “That the battleship ■is the backbone of the fleet is piffle!” he ejaculated. “We have a navy without a definite policy,” he added, and proceeded to criticise the sending of the dirigible Shenanoah on her fatal cruise.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2310, 1 December 1925, Page 7
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120SEA AND THE AIR Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2310, 1 December 1925, Page 7
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