SIX MILLION POUND BATTLESHIP.
Tenders just been sent m for the last two of the ten~lja£tleships authorised by the U.S. Congress m 1916 have rather staggered the American public. The Newport News Company arc asking £4,380,000 and the .Bethlehem Corporation £4,500,000, exclusive of the cost of armour and armament, which is expected to about £2,000,000 per ship. Newport News offers delivery m (45 months, and Bethlehem m 40* months.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14986, 13 August 1919, Page 9
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69SIX MILLION POUND BATTLESHIP. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14986, 13 August 1919, Page 9
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