BIGGEST BATTLESHIP

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2197, 9 July 1914, Page 7

BIGGEST BATTLESHIP

BUILDING IN ENGLAND

FOR UNNAMED POWER

TREMENDOUS ARMAMENT 1

By Taieeraph—Press Aesoola'tlon-Copyrlilii

(Rec. July 8, 11.20 p.m.)

London, July 8. The most powerful battleship in the ttoiUMs now building in .\ shipyard on Uio Tyne for an uuiiamod foreign nation.

■'~ The' vessel will be' 620 ft- long, 94ft.' wide, with'a, tonnage-of 30,500. "The armament .will consist of eight 15-iiich, fourteen ;G-inch,'ahd ten 4-ii.ch guns, and two torpedo-tubes, ,' and 13i-inoli ' armour. ■'•'7 ' r'J-'y. •':'..':■■. ■ •:■;.. ■ ,!; : :NAVAL:ARCHITECTS:"/;: : ;' ; AN INTERESTING DISCUSSION. '< ": ';■' ' (Rec. July 8, 1i.20;p.m.);v. ♦ ■:■::': London, July:'(.,/■ \] .■■; At the Naval \ Architects' Congress at Newcastle, Professor Biles discussed the. question, of; battlesuips versus , subinarines.:;;.,Tlie former, 'he said,', did not possess ah eue'etivo Jefthce apjiinst under-water. attack..'. Tlieir. defence was only to be met: by tho destruction of submarines by v submarines lor. '■ by ar-mour-plating; the bottoms of.the battleships. The latter justified : serious >con- ■ sideration, but it, 'would I mean •■ the' re-, auction of two knots; in the speedi ■ -' ' .Lord Bristol stated that f it almost Octhe duty.of the Admiralty ..to'.ascertain . whbth er such p rot ec'tioii was' eftectiye; ■'■ .-.v'V ■'■■.^■'.i.';'".:.vr i Vv : .- ' ;/GERMAN : ;BATTLE ':..' RECORD -:' (Rec; .'■ >:Vp, ;.. JI he engines of the'new battle-cruiser; Seydlitz-'j-areC;: capable" of 89,/38 propeller horse-power/ which is "a world's record. .'\;-; : ./- ; '...:•;•