NEW FIGHTER FOR JAPAN.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 278, 25 May 1917, Page 4 (Supplement)

NEW FIGHTER FOR JAPAN.

Sn>KR-DUKADXOr(!HT HYIGA 31.200 TONS, IS LAI'XCHED.

The super-dreadnought Hyuga, sister ship of the battleship J so,'which was completed hist November, has just been successfully launched. The Hyuga has a d'.splacement of 31,2(50 tons, i, s (>s! feci long end HI feet wide. She carries twelve 1 1-inch onus a.nd thirty-nine auxiliary guns. She is designed to attain n sped of twenty-three knots, and the engines will develop 4">,000 horsepower at tile -halt.

I'll,, v.ii-k mi th.. Mviiga w.i- started 'ii May. I'.M",. Il is noteworthy that all niaierails used in the construetioii and .■.(111('1111■ 111 were in ide in Japan, :,. it became impossible to obtain for-

eign mall rials on iw:ouu! of I lie war in Komi ,•.. IJoth the Ise end the Myugii wdl be | !ai in I in actual service at t.'ie end ill i hi.-, year or < iriv nexl year. Willi iii" cou-,t: - iiction of ihe Ise and rivogi: i.'ie in iiu heavy battleship licit of Ihe .lajKiue e navy is Hearing completion