VALUE OF BATTLESHIPS.
DEBATE BETWEEN EXPERTS* RETENTION FAVOURED. A. and N.Z. • " LONDON. Dec, 16, Lord Ampthill presided at a* debate at the United Service Institute on the question whether the present type of battleship performs its function of preserving command of the sea. 'Admiral Mark Kerr /argued-that the command of the sea had. passed from the battleship owing to • its vulnerability' to attack by submarines and aircraft. Capital ; I ships in the = future must be. ■ chiefly, air-craft-carriers.: - •,; ■» Viscount . Curzon declared ; that it could not be proved ! that battleships .Were destructible by underwater ;or attacks anyhow, Admiral Kerr's . suggested air-' craft-carriers would be even more vulnerable to'such an attack than .battleships! ;./ . Lord Ampthill, , summing up, said .he thought the sense .'of : the meeting:.;,was that the more weighty argument favoured the. retention of battleships. As this view ; was not- challenged, no vote was . taken. •
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18585, 18 December 1923, Page 9
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