NAVAL ARMAMENTS
NEW FRENCH CONSTRUCTION. REPLY TO GERMAN POCKET SHIP (United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, December 28. The “Daily Telegraph’s” naval correspondent says: The French battle cruiser Dunquerque, laid down on November 16, compliments the British Navy by copying salient features of H.M.S. Nelson. She will, in effect, be a battlecruiser version of the NelSOll and the Hood, with all of her boilers and machinery in the stern.
The Dunquerque is an overwhelming reply to the German pocket battleship. She is two and a half timed larger, four knots faster, and fires broadside twice as heavily. As a battlecruiser, the Dunquerque would be able to engage any warship afloat wtliout undue risk. In order to neutralise the new German navy, and to ensure predominance in the Channel all will be based at Brest; with two or three proposed sister ships.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 December 1932, Page 5
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