INFERIOR ARMAMENT COST US JUTLAND
Exposed Magazines Greatest Weakness
NONE BROUGHT TO BOOK FOB GRAVE BLUNDER
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(Received Friday 7 p.m.) LONDON January 7.
Vice-Admiral B. M. Chambers, in a letter to the “Daily Express’’ states; “it is universally conceded that in the battle of Jutland, our fleet, as regards shells, mines, torpedoes and range-linders, was inferior to that of the Germans. The most outstanding defect, causing the Ipsa of many ships in Jutland, was the lack of a contrivance to isolate magazines from the result of flre on the gun positions. It was this, rather than superior Ger - man shooting, which prevented Jutland from being a complete British success, thus prolonging the war and costing the country hundreds of mu. lions sterling and t e h? of thousands of lives-
“As far as the Navy knows, nobody was brought to book for this grave blunder by the constructing department, which only protected magazines after Jutland.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2340, 9 January 1926, Page 9
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163INFERIOR ARMAMENT COST US JUTLAND Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2340, 9 January 1926, Page 9
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