NAVAL EXPANSION
FUR IT AIN’S PROGRAMME BATTLESHIP S ITER LOIUT Y ‘<Our superiority in battleships will he materially increased! within the next three years.” says the First Lord of the Admiralty,-. Lord Stanhope, in an article, in the journal, Horne and Empire. Lord Stanhope adds that the British naval expansion programme is equalled by that of no other Power, and it is on a scale unprecedented in peacetime. Tiie programme provides for an average of moiie than one ship a week, he goes on. including seven battleships. 21 cruisers, 29 destroyers, 25 submarines, and five aircraft-carriers, giving the fleet a total of 440 vessels. Four of the seven battleships will lie launched this year.
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 175, 28 April 1939, Page 3
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114NAVAL EXPANSION Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 175, 28 April 1939, Page 3
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