PLEA FOR H.M.S. TIGER
USE AS A TRAINING SHIP LAST BIG COAL BURNER LONDON. April 6. Admiral 11. B. Polly, who commanded the. Tiger from 1914 to 1916, makes a striking plea that the Admiralty should not scrap the r l iger, but keep her ns m. tr;unin£ ship, she lifting the last big coal-burning warship. The "art of handling coal should, he says, ho kept alive in the iiavv, as it is* most desirable that British lucl should 1,0 used, and it. would he unsafe to keep all the eggs in a foreign basket, as would be the ease il Britain relied on foreign oil fuel. Admiral 1 ’elly considers that the Tiger is still the most all-round efficient ship over built.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17437, 8 April 1931, Page 7
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123PLEA FOR H.M.S. TIGER Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17437, 8 April 1931, Page 7
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