FAMOUS BATTLESHIPS
TWO TO BE SCRAPPED. EFFECT OF NAVAL TREATY. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, January 24. (Received Jan. 25, at 5.5 p.m.) Rear-admiral' Hyde has transferred his ■flag to the Marlborough from the Emperor of India, which is now being pre,pared for obsequies in April, when it will be attacked by gunfire and subsequently scrapped. The Benbow is also announced for sale and will be broken up. Thus within a month of the Naval Treaty coming into force the deathknell is being sounded of two famous battleships which fought at Jutland and are still capable of many years of hard service. They represent the first 50,000 tons out of the 128,000 by which British capital ships must be reduced by the end of 1932. Moreover, the Iron Duke, Earl Jellicoe’s flagship, is being converted into a training ship. She is losing her turrets and most of her armour, in accordance with the treaty.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21243, 26 January 1931, Page 7
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