It has been decided by the Admiralty to lay down in the present year three battleships, each with a displacement of 18,000 tons. They will bo the largest and most powerful vessels for warlike purposes afloat. America is building a ship of 16,500 tons. Our new monster warships will mount four .50-ton 12-inch weapons of the newest type and ten 6-inch quick-firers. They will probably not be completed for less than a million and a quarter each, possibly more.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 17 July 1901, Page 4
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79Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 17 July 1901, Page 4
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