BRITAIN'S NAVY
TWO NEW DREADNOUGHTS. KING GEORGE V. AND CENTURION. (Received January 17, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, .January 16. The keel plates of two new battleships—the King George V. and the Centurion—are being laid to-day. Each will have a displacement of, approximately, twenty-five thousand tons, and a horse power of twenty seven thousand, giving a speed of twenty-one knots. The thickest armour,to be used will be-twelve-inch Simpson,steel. . ~ The vessels' armament will melade ten thirteen and a half-inch, nnd twenty-four four inch guns. The latter are to be used against destroyers. There will be three tubes, firing twenty-one inch torpedoes, with a range of seven thousand yards. The officers' quarters will be situated aft.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10140, 18 January 1911, Page 5
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112BRITAIN'S NAVY Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10140, 18 January 1911, Page 5
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