NEARLY UNSINKABLE
BRITAIN'S NEW BATTLESHIPS DETAILS CLOSELY GUARDED LQNDON, Jan. 4. (Received Jan. 5, at 0.30 a.m.) The Morning Post's naval correspondent says the battleships King George the Fifth and Prince of Wales are already to become the mystery ships of the world. Every naval Power is anxious to know the constructional details, and America has deferred laying down her new battleships until she has some knowledge of the. British designs. The details are closely guarded, but probably the vessels will carry 12 14-inch guns, housed in four triple turrets permitting high-rate fire, and six-inchers housed in six twin turrets as secondary armament. In addition, they will nave at least eight 4.7-inch guns, supplemented by four eight-barrelled pompoms and a number of multi-barrelled machine guns firing explosive bullets as antiaircraft armament. They will certainly carry aircraft, which are unlikely to number less than four. Arrangements will probably be made to enable the ships to be " trimmed down" when in action by flooding the water ballast tanks, whereby they will be sunk some feet, increasing protection to the sides and decreasing the size of the target. The ships will be the most formidable units of any fleet, as " they will be as nearly unsinkable as it is Dossible to make any ship
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23080, 5 January 1937, Page 7
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