POWERFUL VESSEL
ADDITION TO FRENCH NAVY
PARIS, July 21
A veritable “Queep of the Seas” is ft lie new French battleship Dunkcv.que, according to the French Minister of vtli.ii Navy, 'AT. Leygues.In a speech to* the Kopuhiicmn Club, .Al. Leygues said the Ersncli Navy wap (.fully able ty compete with the strongest navies ip the world. ‘‘No matter whether it is a question of torpedo bdats, destroyers, submarines, cruisers or* capital ships, France posses&Pß warships equal, if not superior in individual fighting value, to those of the United States, England and Japan.” The Dunkerque, which was soon to be.put into service, was even now considered by foreign Admiralties to Be The world’s most powerful capital ship, witlr her speed of 83 knoffi, and h el armament of I4in and 12in guns.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1933, Page 6
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131POWERFUL VESSEL Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1933, Page 6
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