BATTLESHIP CONSTRUCtION.
•NB W USE FOR RUBBER. LONDON,, January 29. Tho Globe announces that the. Admiralty ia experimenting -with? -an invention for the rubber-plating of battleships. The ■ process '-. consists: , of shndwiching sheets of rubber between layers of toughened steeT. 'i'he inventors declare that tho wall of rubber will have the same effect on cannon balls as sandbags have on rifle bullets/ . •■- -
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13299, 7 February 1914, Page 11
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61BATTLESHIP CONSTRUCtION. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13299, 7 February 1914, Page 11
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