MAMMOTH BATTLESHIP
MOST POWERFUL IN THE WORLD. LONDON, July 8. The most powerful battleship in the world is being built at Walker-on-Tyne for an unnamed foreign nation. It is 620 ft long, 94ft wide, and its tonnage is 30,500. It has eight 15in guns, 14 6m, and 10 4in guns ; and two torpedo tubes. She has a belt of 13gin armour. At the Naval Architects’ Congress at Newcastle Professor Biles discussed the problem of battleship versus submarine. The former, lie said, did not possess effective defence against under-water attack. Their defence was only met by the destruction of submarines by submarines, or armour-plating the bottoms of battleships. The latter proposal justified serious consideration. It would, however, mean a reduction of two knots an hour
speed. t Lord Bristol stated that it almost became the duty of the Admiralty to ascertain whether such protection would be effective.
The engines of the new battle-cruiser Seydlitz are capable of developing 89,758 propeller horse-power —the world’s record.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3148, 15 July 1914, Page 27
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