POWERS’ NAVIES
GERMAN CONSTRUCTION. SIX-YEAR PROGRAMME. Strong in Submarines. Press Association —Copyrijjht. Received 10.50 a.m. London, April 15. The “new German Navy” the subject of a chapter in the 1937 edition of Brassey’s Naval Annual. The chapter states that the German Supreme Command has decided to build in six years five battleships, 14 cruisers, three armoured ships, two aircraft carriers, 40 destroyers and torpedo-boats, and 22,000 tons of submarines. Germany has already built armoured ships—pocket battaleships two battleships have been launched, and a third laid down. Except in respect of the submarine programme, this observes the Anglo-German Naval Agreement. Thirty-six submarines, totalling 12,000 tons, have already been completed, but the distribution of the remaining 10,000 tons has not yet been announced. Britain has only 54 submarines built, or building.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 409, 16 April 1937, Page 5
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129POWERS’ NAVIES Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 409, 16 April 1937, Page 5
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