GERMANY'S DREADNOUGHT.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10240, 1 September 1909, Page 4

GERMANY'S DREADNOUGHT.

[By Electric Telegraph —Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) Received September 1, at 5.55 a.m. Berlin, August 31. The Westfalen, Germany's first Dreadnought, has been completed, and is now lying in the Wcser. [Up to now the "Posen" and •;Rlimoland" type was the last word in German naval architecture. They had a displacement of 17.560 tons, as compared with 19,250 of Britain s St. \ lucent, an armament of 12 Ilm. guns and 12 6.7 in. quickfirers, as against 10 and 20 4in. quickfirers on the St. \ mcent; the broadside fire being 991i-lbs as compared with 6,Soolbs, A Dreadnouirht battleship-cruiser, the \ on dor Tann, launched on March 20, stated to have a displacement of IJ,UUU tons, and an armament giving a broadside fire of OlOOlbs, and a crew ot 900 ; bnt great secrecy is maintained as to all her details.]