NEW BRITISH DREADNOUGHTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1366, 25 February 1915, Page 4

NEW BRITISH DREADNOUGHTS.

Stead’s Review for Feb March contains a catechism on the war, in which sixty questions on inter esting points ate answered. In reply to a query as to the number of Dreadnoughts added to the British Navy since the war began, it says ; “On August 4111 Britain had 22 Dreadnoughts, including the two she had purchased from an unwilling Turkey. Since then the Benbow and the Emperor of India (sisters of the Iron Duke and Marlborough) have been put into commission. The huge oildriven Queen Elizabeth, and her sister, the Warspite, have also joined the fleet, and still more recently the greatest ships of all, the Valiant and Barham, have been added. The gift Dreadnought ot the Malay Slates, the Mnlavn, will be ready in a month ot iwo. L; ad dram, to these, the Chilian Lai ore, which Britain took over, was completed in December, and her sister, the Cochrane, which will soon be ready, are both 28,000 tons, and have ten 14 in. guns each. It is fairly safe to say that by the end ot March, it not before Great Britain will have added no fewer than nine superDreadnoughts since the war began making a mighty total of 31 in commission.”