GERMANY AND ENGLAND.
STATEMENT BY A SOCIALIST JOURNAL. W ARS If IPS' OF THE MONITOR TYPE. TO DESTROY DREADNOUGHTS. fBY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT.] [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] BERLIN, September 5. The newspaper Vor worts states Hint both .British and Germans are working feverishly on walrshiips modelled on the Monitor type and intended for the destruction of .Dreadnoughts.
The vessels will be cruisers with a length of 280 feet, beam of 48 feet, draught of 20 feet, and their main docks will be only sft above the water line. Tlio armament will consist of two 16.7 guns, which will cany a projectile weighing O-lOlbs mounted in a single turret amidships and turning in all directions.
The normal speed will be nineteen knots, with forced draught increasing to 27 knots. Tlioy will be driven by foili motors, each of COOO horse power. The vessels will cost considerably less t'ban Dreadnoughts and will yet be invulnerable to the 12incli fire of the Dreadnought 12inch guns.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 September 1910, Page 3
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160GERMANY AND ENGLAND. Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 September 1910, Page 3
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