NEW BRITISH CRUISER.
MOST POWERFUL IN WORLD.
LAST WARSHIP ON STOCKS.
{Received 11.30 p.m.) Times. LONDON. June 6. After the launch of the light cruiser Effingham at Portsmouth on, June 8, there will not be a single warship of any kind building in Britain for the Boyal Navy. The date of the laving down of four capital ships to replace obsolete vessels is uncertain.
The Effingham is the last of the four most powerful light cruisers in the world. She is equipped with 70,000 horse-power turbine engines, giving a speed of. 30 knots. She will use oil fuel. This type of vessel was designed in 1915 to deal with enemy raiders.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17802, 8 June 1921, Page 7
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