POCKET SUBMARINE.
BRITAIN'S LATEST. i United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. LONDON, Dm 19. The Daily Telegraph’s naval writer says that the Shark, Britain’s pocket submarine, costing £250,000. is undergoing trials in the Channel. It is barely 200 feet in length and displaces 670 tons and! for rap'd diving the- type is- not surpassed. It can perform a crash dive in 30 siaands- The craft has six lubes discharging 21inch •topedoes so a salvo would disable any battleship afloat. The Sharp is equippedl with wireless and an escape tube. She carries four officers and 30 men.
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Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19456, 21 December 1934, Page 9
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95POCKET SUBMARINE. Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19456, 21 December 1934, Page 9
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