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WONDERFUL TARGET SHIP. Received This Day, at 8.5 a.m..) LONDON, Nov. 18. The Atlantic' Fleet's target-ship Centurion, which has just been commissioned, will be fitted, it is claimed, with the most perfect control system yet devised. It 2an be manoeuvred without a crew on board as skilfully as though it were fully manned, steering and steaming whilst it is actually beirg fired at. " N The control is operated from the destroyer Shikari which follow j in the Centurion's wake, using wireless rays in almost; the same way as a marionette is manipulated by strings
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Shannon News, 22 November 1927, Page 2
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97STEERED BY WIRELESS. Shannon News, 22 November 1927, Page 2
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