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NEW BRITISH BATTLESHIPS Best Protected In World i i Press Association —Copy tight. Received 11.30 a.m. London, June 30. Hector Bywater, writing in the Daily Telegraph, says that the j five new British battleships are I the best-protected in the world, i They are designed to withstand . the heaviest gun, bomb and tor- ! pedo attacks. Their armour aci counts for 40 per cent of their displacement. They have a speed of 30 knots compared with the Queen Elizabeth’s 25 knots. Thus they combine great fighting power with battle cruisers’ speed.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 461, 1 July 1937, Page 5
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93FAST AND POWERFUL Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 461, 1 July 1937, Page 5
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