SCRAPPING WARSHIPS
TIGER'S FATE DEPLORED.
(Received 9 a.m.) LONDON, April 6. Admiral H; B. Felly, who commanded the battleship Tiger in 1914-16 makes a striking plea that the Admiralty should not scrap the vessel, but keep her as a training ship. The Tiger is the last big coal-burn-ing warship, and Admiral Felly says the art of handling coal should be kept alive in the Navy, as it is most desirable that British fuel should be used and it is not safe to “keep all our eggs in a foreign basket,” ae would be the case if Britain relied upon for.eign oil fuel. He considers that the Tiger is still the most all-round efficient ship ever built.
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Northern Advocate, 8 April 1931, Page 5
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