THE NAVY
SHORTAGE OF CRUISERS LOWEST SINCE THE EIGHTIES (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 17th December, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, 16th December. Attention is again directed to the shortage of cruisers which Mr Hector Bywater, the “Daily Telegraph’s” naval expert, says is the lowest since the eighties. The scrapping of five C class at the end of the year under treaty obligations will leave only 44 completed cruisers plus Australia’s four, but only twenty-six of these are post-war ships. At the beginning of the year, the Empire will have only 35 ships under the official age limit of sixteen years. Sixteen ships are at present being built or are projected, but before they are completed five existing vessels will be obsolete, leaving by 1939 only 46 under age.
Mr Hector Bywater in the “Daily Telegraph” says it is now clear that the battleships King George V. and the Prince of Wales will be laid down early in January. They will be the first units of a new squadron of five.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 17 December 1936, Page 7
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