UNITED STATES
DEFENCE QUESTION. (PaESS AsaCCIATION- —CoPiRIQHT ) WASHINGTON, Deo. 16. Tenders will be received for eight new submarines. The specifications provide for a. surface speed of 21 knots, and a submerged speed of 16 knots, Diesel engine propulsion, and sufficient cruising capacity to enable them to accompany the fleet round the globe. Commander Stirling, of the Atlantic submarine flotilla, informed the Naval I Investigation Committee that a large mobile army would be. required to protect tho Panama Canal. The navy was insufficient and -unprepared to protect the j Canal against a navy of Germany's size, j The lack of a base," however, would be ! a handicap to a hostile navy. He thought i the ultimate development of the submarine would be a vessel of 2000 tons , and a speed of 25 knots, able to accompany a battleship anywhere.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLVIII, 17 December 1914, Page 3
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138UNITED STATES Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLVIII, 17 December 1914, Page 3
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