IMPERIAL DEFENCE
LONDON, August 16,
The Admiralty has ordered from private yards three battleships, which will be heavier and more powerful than the Queen Mary, and which but for the Canadian Senate’s decision would not be begun until the spring. By the autumn of 1915 Britain will have at sea 42 dreadnoughts, including the Lord Nelson, Agamemnon, and New Zealand, and also including two which are about to be laid down at Portsmouth and Devonport. The Admiralty has invited 200 lieutenants in the fleet to volunteer for the naval air wing of the Royal Flying Corps.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3101, 20 August 1913, Page 23
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