DANGER OF SUBMARINES
NOT SO GREAT A MENACE LISTENING APPARATUS (Special to the Herald.) AUCKLAND, this day. Submarines had ceased to be the menace they were in the Great War, largely because of the remarkable developments in listening apparatus and the greater speed of surface craft, said Mr. R. J. Grimshaw, a recentlyretired constructor in the Royal Navy, who arrived from England by the Arawa.
He added that Great Britain had brought her Navy and Air Force to a point where she was equipped against almost any emergency.
Twenty years ago the submarine was a deadly weapon, invaluable in an attacking fleet, but the redesigning of destroyers and cruisers, thengreater fleetness and a reorganisation of tactics, had minimised the worth of underwater craft. Nowadays Britain was designing them for use in coastal defences and general patrol work rather than as weapons of offence. -
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19379, 17 July 1937, Page 4
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