COSTLY WARSHIPS
MAT HAVE TO BE LAID V?
Feb. 10.
The show vessels oi the American naw. the aircraft carriers I*exuigton and" Saratoga, are so costly to run that thev mav have to be laid up. Speakmc; on the Naval Estimates, which were passed by the Bouse ot Representatives yesterday, the ehiwMuot of the Appropriations Sub-Owmmit-tee oa Naval Fiuamvs mentioned the wssihilfty of OtaipPOftS being asked to withdraw those oo.OOP-ton wai-sbips from active service. The ships, he said, were o-roving expensive to operate, and the commiriee was seriously coiisideriug the matter. , ~, fllie Saratoga and Lewngton. whicli were ccramiss»on«) in repwseiit the last word in American naval practice, with machinery the most powerful ever installed in a warship. ESseh v<>ssel can carrv 72 aeroplanes. Their initial Cost was £i\«X\f«t.]
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16914, 1 April 1929, Page 11
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