A NEW DESTROYER
POWERFUL AND FAST
SALVOES OF TORPEDOES
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyrisht (Received 30th April, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 29th April. Tho "Daily Telegraph's" naval correspondent, describing the Acheron, the latest destroyer added to the Navy, says that her speed is nominally forty miles an hour, but it is likely tho Acho'ron will established a record for warship speed. She is a greyhound of the sea. She carries 130 officers and men and four 4.7 in guns, in addition to eight torpedo tubes mounted on quadrangle carriages. Thus she can discharge the heaviest salvo of torpedoes of any destroyer in the world. Near the Acheron are two similar destroyers for Canada, the Saguenay and Skeena, which havo stronger framework than the Acheron, owing to their liability to have to cruise in iceinfested waters. The Canadian destroyers are costing £670,000.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 100, 30 April 1930, Page 11
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141A NEW DESTROYER Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 100, 30 April 1930, Page 11
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