NAVAL PAGEANT.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 567, 23 July 1909, Page 5

NAVAL PAGEANT.

± « BLUEJACKETS' VISIT -TO LONDON. 'By TeUtraph.-Prcsa Association -OopyrlKhU London, July 21. Tho Lord Mayor (Sir George Truscott) gave a luncheon at tho Guildhall to twelve hundred bluejackets and marines belonging to the warships now in tho Thames. The men marohod with six twelvepounders through the chief thoroughfares, and were received with tremendous enthusiasm.

THE'CHAIN OF STEEL IN THE THAME6. An' advance plan of the naval pageant in the ,Thnmes shows the submarines, tqrpedo boats,< and dcahojeis in the very heatt of London,' these smaller ciaft forming the thrustpomt of a gigantic [.pear, vhose shaft is'the great battleships in the estuary. Going down river towmds Woolwioh the scouts and depot ships, aro passed; then comes the Warrior type (armouied oruiser, 13,000 tons), and the Defenco typo (armoured cruiser, H,GOO tons). ' ' The Indomitable tiio (latest battleshipcruisers,l 17,250 tons, eight ]2-inch guns) are clustered off Gieenhithe.

• The 'bhttle'shlp : Russell (14.000 tons) and s'tho, armoured cruiser Drake (14,100 tons) carry down'ito>near Gravesond, and 'are.followed by various third j Clnss, battleships, then the eight second-claM (King 'Edward VII -type,';' IG.BUO 'tbh6,'i'oiir 12-ihch';guns) .mixed up with the ne'xt-to-Dreadrioughts,!(Lord Nelson -and Agamemnon, more : heavily gunned than the Kins fid wards!,-! and the Dreadnoughts themselves. ', t Four Dreadnoughts take part in the pageant —the, original..battleship : of:-that name,.',the !Bollei'ophon'(<00 -tons heavier, than the Dread-, nought,. and ; having an. additional. secondary armament of sixteen 4-inoh'guns); and the Bellefopho'n'fl -sisters: Temeroire.and SuperK .The latter paif have.,been; recently commissioned, 'those .monstersVare' clustered 'off Southcnd4;