BATTLESHIP RODNEY BEGINS HER TRIALS
STEAMING IN CHANNEL
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RUGBY, Thursday. The new battleship Rodney left Plymouth to-day for her 24 hours' steaming trials in | the English ChanI nel.—A. and N.Z. , ] The Rodney and I her sister-ship, the I Nelson, are the two I battleships which | Britain was author - ’ ised to construct
under the Washington Treaty of naval limitation. and are the heaviest and most powerfully armed fighting vessels in the world. Each has a displacement of 35,000 tons, whereas the three American battleships of the Maryland class displace only 32,000 tons each. The British vessels are the only battleships allowed to be built by Britain, America or Japan until 1931. when Britain may lay down two which will replace four of the Iron Duke class, America two in replacement of the Florida, Utah and Wyoming, and Japan one to replace the Kongo. _
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 241, 31 December 1927, Page 1
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