BATTLESHIP TIGER.
SCRAPPING DEPRECATED.
SHIP STILL EFFICIENT.
FORMER COMMANDER'S PLEA
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright
(Received April 7, 9.55 p.m.) LONDON, April 6.
Admiral H. B. Felly, who commanded the battleship Tiger 1914-16, makes a striking plea that the Admiralty should not scrap the vessel but keep her as a training ship. The Tiger is the last big coal-burning warship and Admiral Polly says the art of handling coal should be kept alive in the Navy, as it is most desirable that British fuel should be used and it is not safe to " keep all our eggs in a foreign basket," as would be the case if Britain relied upon foreign oil fuel. The admiral says he considers that the Tiger is still the most all-round efficient ship ever built.
The construction of the Tiger was begun on June 20, 1912. She was launched on December 15, 1913, 'and completed in October, 1914. Iler standard displacement is 28,900 tons. She was built under the 1911 estimates by J. Brown and Co., Clydebank, and cost £2,087,491; refitted in 1920 at a cost of £90,636; and her annual upkeep *has amounted to £183,680. She has a broadside of eight 13.5 in., six 6in. and two 21in. guns. The Tiger lias a fuel capacity of 628 tons coal and oil.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20842, 8 April 1931, Page 9
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