MOTHER-SHIP LAUNCHED
Aircraft Carrier to Guard Food Routes ( LONDON, April 14. ! ! Costing £3,000,000, the aircraft carrier, Ark Royal, was launched by Lady Hoare at Birkenhead. It is the > most up-to-date in the world, j Sir Samuel Hoare 's speech t'ore- ! shadowed the extensive use of aircraft I carriers to convoy merchantmen carry«; ing foodstufEs and raw materials to Bxitain from the Empire and to enable the fleefc to search for xaiders with greater success. Several similar aircraft carriers aTe being constructed.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 75, 15 April 1937, Page 12
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