GENIUS AT WORK
NEW GERMAN CRUISER Remarkable Features in Design and Construction VESSEL PRACTICALLY UNSINKABLE. (By leiexraph—Per Press A»«n.- C-i-y? Received March 29, 8 p i.:. (A. A N-Z.) LONDON, March 29. The naval, correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says the design for Germany’s new 10,000-ton cruiser represents an innovation in naval construction.
The steel is of the highest quality and electric welding is employed, instead of rivets, thus combining great strength and extraordinary lightness. I’lic vessel will have Diesel engines of astonishing power, but her radius will be limited, as the type is designed for the Baltic and North Seas. The hull is so subdivided that the ship is virtually unsinkable and her superstructure is reduced to a minimum. It is really a sea-going, motordriven monitor, able to navigate waters inaccessible to ordinary battleships, yet able to engage a Dreadnought with good prospects of success.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20109, 30 March 1928, Page 7
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