THE BRITISH NAVY
NEW TYPE OF CRUISERS. LONDON, September 8. The vtssel which is to follow the cruiser Indefatigable on the stocks at Devonport in November will be a new type of superior Invincible, and will be the first of a ntw group of single-masted cruiser battleships, 600 ft in length, with a speed of 30 knots, and armed with 12in guns, and new 21in torpedoes, with a range of 7000 yards. September 12. The newspaper Engineering states that the Admiralty had placed orders for 20 destroyers, of a speed of 29 knote. Their construction will enable them to keep the seas in all weathers. Seventeen are fitted with Parsons's turbines and three with Curtis turbines. MOUNTAIN KING ASTHMA POWDER affords immediate and refreshing relief.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2896, 15 September 1909, Page 22
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125THE BRITISH NAVY Otago Witness, Issue 2896, 15 September 1909, Page 22
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