H.M.S. RODNEY
WORLD’S GREATEST SHIP BRITAIN’S LATEST FIGHTING MACHINE Received Aug. 15, 1 a.m. y(A. & N.Z.) LONDON, Aug. 14. Britain’s £7,000,000 battleship Rodney, the world’s largest, has left the Mersey, where it was built, for Portsmouth for gunnery and speed trials. The keel was laid in 1922 and the vessel was launched in 1925. She carries nine 16-inch guns.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19919, 15 August 1927, Page 7
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59H.M.S. RODNEY Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19919, 15 August 1927, Page 7
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