THE THUNDERER LAUNCHED.
BIGGEST WARSHIP TURNED OUT OF A LONDON YARD. LONDON, February 3. Britain's nineteenth Dreadnought was launched at Blackwall on Wednesday. The Thunderer, as she was christened by Miti'Davidsou, wife of the Archbishop of Canterbury, is the biggest warship over turned out of a London dockyard. A tremendous crowd was present, and it is many years since the capital witnessed such a launching; The new battleship had been given the sobriquet of "the election Dreadnought" by the Government's political opponents, who declared that the order for the ship had been placed just prior to the election in January of last year, with the object of providing work and thus winning votes in the East End of London. The Thunderer is of 22,500 tons, and will average a speed of 21 knots. She is 580ft in length, with a beam of 86ft. Her armament will consist of 10 13.5in guns, mounted on the centre-line sys-l tern, and she will be capable of delivering a total broadside Vqual to 27,0001b.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12377, 10 February 1911, Page 2
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