LATEST DESTROYER
FASTEST IN THE WORLD.
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this dav> at 9.30. a.m.) ~V LONDON, April 28.
The •'•Daily Tele,graph’s” naval correspondent describing- the Acheron, the latest destroyer :added to the Navy, says the speed :is nominal forty miles an hour but i it- is likely the Acheron will establish a record ior •warship speed. She is a greyhound ©f the sea carryingsliiO'..-officers and men, four 4.7 guns,-un, addition, to eight torpedo tubes on .quadrangle carriages.;;-Thus she can .discharge the heaviest salvo of . torpedoes of any desti'qyey.in the world. Near the Acheron are two similar destroyers for Canada,,,.the Saguenay •and" Skeena, which,, : ,-have , stronger framework than the Acheron owing ■it.o the liability to cruise .in ice injected waters. Tlier,Canadiait -destroy-t-rs are costing £670,000.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1930, Page 5
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