H.M.S. ORION.
. DREADNOUGHT MADE SECONDCLASS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyrislit London, September 11. Tho battleship Orion has started her trials at Portsmouth. Critics, comparing armament of the Orion with that of the Dreadnought, declare that it makes the latter secondclass. Tho Orion, ■ which was launched in August of last year, is to tho Dreadnought what the Dreadnought was to the type she made obsolete. With her engines and armament her tonnage will be nearly 24,000. She is 68ift. in length, and is armed with ten 13.5 in. guns, firing a projectile half as heavy again as tho 12in. guns of the earlier Dreadnoughts. The great guns are mounted in pairr arranged in echelon, so that no one of them masks any other, and they can all be fired on either broadside. The horse-power of the Orion s engines is 27,000, and her speed through the water was to bo twenty-one knots. The Orion also has a larger and more deadly torpedo' than any yet mounted in a warship This is a 21in. weapon, with a range of 7000 yard", at a speed of forty knots. Tho Orion has three submerged tubes for discharging her great torpedoes. The Navy has hitherto used an 18m. tor-
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1231, 13 September 1911, Page 5
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202H.M.S. ORION. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1231, 13 September 1911, Page 5
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