THE BRITISH NAVY.
THE BUILDING PROGRAMME. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, jan. o. A battleship is being laid down on tho 16th, to be named the King George the Fifth, not the Royal George. Besides tho Commonwealth cruisers Melbourne and Sydney, twelve others of tho Towns class aro built, building, or ordered, including one shortly to ho built, to bo- named the Chatham, and two others by private contract named tho Dublin and the Southampton. Two Dreadnoughts of tho Centurion class will shortly bo built by private contract, and will bo named the Ajax ami tho Audacious.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 14399, 6 January 1911, Page 3
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96THE BRITISH NAVY. Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 14399, 6 January 1911, Page 3
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