NEW BRITISH WARSHIPS.
SOME FE TURKS OF VESSELS JlVr ORDKHi'D. (Per San FraHcisco Mail). London, May 1. The Admiralty k< eps up its cus om of antoui rung its programme of new construct ot one year and placing tl.e orders a full yrar or moe afrerwa'ds. j'' h-* fifteen watships ju-t ordered wpre air»nged for n 'he Navy Estimates if 1901-1902, aud in ' Lord S<lbo' ne's " stitement" issn-d in [March, 1901.
Ti>e Dominion and the Cemmonweilth am s : st'r thips 'o the King Edwsrd VII., now fcuiU'ns at; Devonport. Ench wi!lc*i a million and a quarter. They are to be the biggest shirs rver added to th fl-«r.. In'h'fe'fa'e mammoth ba r tship« •he scattered s;.»tem will be abiwf tied. T* l * main broadsidn armour wi'l bfl firieH o h uppi-r dek, and n'.l h biiwdsi > nn on he main d-ck^si l h <ompl-t :'\ prut-cted by the arm-ui' of the ci'ade'. A rov. 1 feature i- provide by'he 9.2 i" guns, ' ii f «hchwl -• a- < ed in .dl t,i , - foi 12i .; ten 6i , and smalVr -ni.ons The fiv /• un \ nu' -r * ' bail' by privVe firm* • R ■ >">, .-a.mpshr >-, \ra\s., v • lares te • i|>s ' f I) • ..us ; i rt, tr w j I building in C nth m Dorkwi | i ThMV will !>■ in al respects *'m lar j to tV previa* rruntv .>u ■<> -, exc p r >ha"h v will c ny . »i" 1 7.5 in. gun j fcr*ard and sfc instead of the two 6in. guns of the Monmou'h cVs. T' e ' ew torpedo b<.at-destro»e's will be 25 kno*. Wat?, and much stronger than the 31-knot des"toyer-\ The will b- fitt»d with Parson's s'eam turbivs. It is interesting 'o rot) that Mes>rs Yarrow aid Compinv, who have not bu-lt any torpedo craft for tl e British Navy since 1894, haro been gi»en orders for three new destroyers. The design of the modern torpedo-boat deB'royer is due *o 'he genius snd initia t ; veof Mr A. F. Yarrow.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 141, 18 June 1902, Page 3
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325NEW BRITISH WARSHIPS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 141, 18 June 1902, Page 3
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