BATTLE PRACTICE
SINKING A DREADNOUGHT. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, January 21. (Received January 22, 5. 5 p.m.) In accordance with the Washington Treaty the battleship Monarch was towed out into the Atlantic and bombarded by the Fleet and aircraft. It is understood that the Hood and Repulse had to remain to complete the sinking. The Daily Mail says that it took nine hours to sink the Monarch because the ship had been reconstructed internally in accordance with the results of previous experiments, whereby it was discovered that the vessel may be blown to pieces, but would be unsinkable by shell-fire, mines or torpedoes.
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Southland Times, Issue 19458, 23 January 1925, Page 5
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108BATTLE PRACTICE Southland Times, Issue 19458, 23 January 1925, Page 5
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