The sixteen-inch guns mounted on ; H.M.S. Nelson, Britain's largest battleship, are sixty-seven feet long and fire shells weighing 246 pounds each. Westminster Cathedral is being deco- , rated in mosaic work, a task that, it is anticipated, will occupy a century or more.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18547, 22 August 1928, Page 7
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