BATTLESHIPS DOOMED.
SIR PERCY SCOTT'S VIEW.
SUBMARINE'S SUPREMACY. United Service. ' LONDON. Dec.' 8. Admiral Sir Percy Scott, in an inter* view, said that battleships were useless; they were kept in port during the four years of war, and when taken out. were treated as glass and guarded by whole flotillas of destroyers. Had the German submarne officers been as good as the English they would have gone into Scapa Flow and sunk the lot. "If we build battleships we will have to build nurses for them, he concluded.
AN ADMIRALTY EXPERIMENT.
NEW TYPE OF BATTLESHIP. A. and N.Z. LONDON, Dec. 8. It is understood that the Admiralty proposes to build in record time at Portsmouth the first of a new type of battleship embodying the lessons of the war.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17650, 10 December 1920, Page 7
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