THE FRENCH NAVY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13939, 21 April 1909, Page 2

THE FRENCH NAVY.

TAYO NEAY BATTLESHIPS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright.

(Received April isl, 8.30 a.m.) PARIS. April 20

The Diderot and Condorcet, the second and third of the French 18,350 tons, 19i-knot battleships, have been launched.

[The number of ships built, building, and piojectcd for the French Navy on November J3O, 1908, was as follows: — Battleships 12, armoured cruisers 3, torpedo-boat destroyers 19, submarines 53. Six battleships under construction are of the 1906 programme. These vessels are to be of 18,350 tons displacement and to have an armament of four 12in., twelve 9.4 in., and twentyfour smaller guns. They are to be completed by 1912. It is proposed to lay down six more battleships in 1910 of' 21,000 tons displacement. All are to have tin bine machinery, with an armament of six 12in., eight 9.4 in.. and eighteen 2.9 in. guns. No armoured or protected cruisers are included in the new naval programme for 1909, activity being directed to the building of large battleships and destroyers. Twel\e destroyers were completed in I 1908, and six submaiines. Of the 53 submarines reported to be under construction, eight were ordered in 1906 and ten in 1907, but it is uncertain whether work on them has actually been begun. The French Navy now occupies the fifth place among the na\al powers ot the world, having been oiertaken by the fleets of the United States. Germany, and, during 1908, by Japan. This was admitted to be the case by Admiral de Cuverville and M. Thomson, the late Minister of Marine, dining a debile mi na u»n»il defence on July 2, 1908. when a resolution supporting tjje Government in its efforts to "ensure to France the powerful war naty demanded by her security and her situation in the world" was passed.]

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