EMPIRE DEFENCE.
COST OF BATTLESHIPS. A COMPARISON. Received March 16, 10.7 p.m. LONDON, March 16. Official figures show that the battleship Vanguard cost £1.624,875 beingjat the rate of £B4 per ton as compared with the cost of the Dreadnought £IOO per ton and the King Edward the Seventh £B9 per ton. The latest French battleship cost £ll4 per ton, that of Germany £lOl per ton, and United States £IOO per ton. In the House of Commons the Navy Committee, including the Liberal Imperialists and Conservatives, resolved that seven Dreadnoughts were necessary for the coming year, another to be added if found necessary, and that the postponement of the building of four Dreadnoughts would place an undue ( strain on the i9lO-1911 programme.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3139, 17 March 1909, Page 5
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121EMPIRE DEFENCE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3139, 17 March 1909, Page 5
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