MONSTER SUBMARINE
FRANCE’S LATEST,
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PARIS, , Nov. 13. The new French submarine, “Surcouf” will be launched at Cherbourg on November 18th. She will be the world’s largest submarine. The Daily Mail’s Paris correspondent says: A submersible cruiser would be a truer name than that of submarine. Her deck is armoured. Her fourteen torpedoes are so arranged that she is able to attack an enemy ship in any posjr tion. She also lias four five inch quick firing guns. The vessel is four hundred feet long, with a speed of 19 knots. Her displacement afloat is 3257 tons, and submerged it is 3301 tons. She can submerge to 560 feet'. The largest submarine afloat is the British one 350 feet long, with six torpedo tubes, and which cost over three million pounds.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1929, Page 4
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