TNE NZ. DREADNOUGHT.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13975, 9 August 1909, Page 3

TNE NZ. DREADNOUGHT.

THIRTEENTH GIFT SHIP. Tho London Chronicle publishes an interesting paragraph about the New Zoalancl Dreadnought:—" The definite decision of New Zealand to present the navv with a battleship makes the thirteenth gift of the kind that Great Britain, or the British fleet-, lias received. First, in Charles ll's reign, the Citv of ondon presented a battleship, called the Loyal London, to the navv. Then in George ll's reign the American colonists, loyal subjects ot the Empire then, presented a line 32gun frigate to the navy, which was called the America, and fought m the war which won Canada for the Empire. In the War of American Independence the East India Company built and presented to the navy three fine 74-gun battleshipps, the Gauges, Carnatic, and Bombay Castle. In the Napoleonic war tho West Indian colonies built, equipped, and presented to the navy, six fast corvettes, or small cruisers,* which were named the Barbados, Jamaica, etc., after the donors. In the year before Queen \ icJoria came to the throne the Imaum of Muscat, on the Persian Gulf, in return for British protection, built nl teak and presented to the Royal Navy, a magnificent 74-gun battleship, which was named by us the Imaum, and was in existence as a training ship until quite recently. Now:, as thirteenth 'gift ship' ivo have New Zealand's Dreadnought.''