WONDERFUL NAVAL WORKSHOP AFLOAT.
NEW REPAIR SHIP IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, January 4. The Navy’s most wonderful ship H.M.S. Resource, of 13,500 tons, is the Mediterranean Fleet’s new repair ship She carries twenty different workshops each fitted with latest plant, also a foundry and a smithy. Its principal dut)' will be to keep the Mediterranean warships in condition, but it will also be able to supply them with water and oil. The vessel has double bottoms so constructed as to enable it to carry in them 2000 tons of distilled water, 200 tons of boiler water, 100 tons of lubricating oil, and 400 tons of oil fuel. She also carries powerful wireless and searchlight plants. The latter is for illuminating any ship on which night work may be necessary. The only armament consists of two four-inch guns on high-angle mount ” .enabling them to be used against aircraft.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18960, 6 January 1930, Page 1
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