SCRAPPING THE WARSHIPS
, $ "Tho Navy is now passing through a stago of development quite as epoch-mak-ing as the trnnsitioa period between 1800 and 1875, when 'wooden walls' were replaced by ironclads," says an Danish naval butter. "When the Admiralty have disposed of nil the vessels now on the sale list the whole of our remaining battleships will, be of the Dreadnought ciass. Tho wnr Droved that. Dreadnoughts alone "are of any value in. pre-sent-day tnctics, and, sentiment apart, the scrapping of nil these 'second-rates' is a good tiling for the Navy. It is i still a mystery why such obsolescent I ships as (he Defence, Black l'rince, and I Warrior were allowed to go in'.o action !at Jutland. They 6tood absolutely no 1 chance against the German Dreadnoughts, and 'became mere death-traps for hundreds of gallant oiliccrs and men."
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 289, 2 September 1919, Page 5
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139SCRAPPING THE WARSHIPS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 289, 2 September 1919, Page 5
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