POCKET SUBMARINE
NEW BRITISH WEAPON
NOVEL FEATORES
(Received Dec. 20, 3 p.in.) LONDON, Dec. 19
Tho Daily Telegraph's Jiaval writer savs that the. Shark, Britain’s pocket, submarine, < osting .1250.000, is undeigoing trials in the Channel. It is barely 200 ft. long and displaces 670 tons. Vor rapid diving, the-type is unsurpassed. It can perform a- eras i dive in ZOsec. The craft has si:: tubes, discharging 21in. torpedoes, and a salvo would disable any battleship afloat. _ The .Shark is equipped with wireless and an escape, tube. It carries font) officers and 30 men.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18585, 20 December 1934, Page 13
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93POCKET SUBMARINE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18585, 20 December 1934, Page 13
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