NEW CAPITAL SHIPS
' • • • -THE .FRENCH NAVY {United PreßH Association—By Electric Telegraph-Copyrisrlit) LONDON, Ist. March.. ‘.'Hie Times” Paris correspondent .states- that the Government is expected to prepare for' the' early construction of a capital ship of 35,000 tons, in addition to the two battle cruisers now under construction. Permission may idso be sought to build a second capital ship in 1937. The decision results from Italy’s persistence in the construction of two 25,000 tonners and American and Japanese shipbuilding activity. The new French capital ships will probably be super-dreadnoughts resembling the Hood and Rodney, and replacing the obsolete Jean Bart and Courbet. .-
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 5 March 1935, Page 8
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