SUBMARINE'S TRIUMPH.
VULNERABLE BATTLESHIPS. LESSON OF THE WAR. A. and N.Z. LONDON. Nov. 28. Admiral Sir Percy Scott, in a striking fpeech at. a dinner "of the Glaziers' Companv, criticised the use of battleships in the "Mediterranean. He said the advent of the German submarines caused all the battleships that were not sent to the bottom to hurry ,to harbour and lash rvrchantmen alongside them as a protec-t-on against torpedoes. Surely that suggested "that the naval standard was gone. The Hon. A. M. Myers, of New Zealand, tias a guest at the dinner. The extraordinary precautions which pre considered necessary to guard bat&lefhips against submarine attack even in British hours during the war are revealed in a hook recently published by Lieutenant-Commander E. Hilton-Young, " By Sea and Land." Describing the situation at Scapa Flow, he says: "During the submarine scare a wad of auxiliaries was arranged around each battleship as a protection against torpedoes and trawlers and drifters, and were sent to patrol the Flow. The Iron Duke had a big collier drawn up on one side of her and a couple of ' beef s!iipa' on the other."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17641, 30 November 1920, Page 5
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