BRITAIN'S NAVY.
THREE LARG& BATTLESHIPS
TO BE BUILT,
Reoeived July 25, 9.59 p.m. LONDON, July 25.
Instead of building two more Dreadnoughts and two big armoured oruisers the Government intend to build three Dreadnoughts. One will be built at Portsmouth, another at Devonport, and the third at a private yard.
The battleships will have a speed of twenty-one knots and be able to cros9 and re-cross the Atlantic without re-codling.
They will also be able to pass through the Suez Canal.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8189, 26 July 1906, Page 5
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81BRITAIN'S NAVY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8189, 26 July 1906, Page 5
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