NEW BATTLESHIPS NOW
AT SEA (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 20. The Admiralty announces that two new British battleships, the Anson and the Howe, are now at sea. They are of the King George V class,' and have a displacement of 35,000 tons. Each carries four aircraft and is designed for improved defence against air attack. The armament includes ten 14-inch guns, of greater range than the 15-inch guns mounted in earlier ships. Each carries 1500 officers and men. The Anson has already tested her guns against an enemy aeroplane. 'While she was protecting an important convoy in the Atlantic, an enemy- plane appeared, but a few rounds from the Anson’s.antiaircraft guns were sufficient to drive it away.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 23, 22 October 1942, Page 5
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118NEW BATTLESHIPS NOW Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 23, 22 October 1942, Page 5
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