THE BRITISH NAVY.
ORDERS FOR THREE FRESH BATTLESHIPS. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) LONDON, August 16. The British Admiralty has placed., an, order with private yards for the construction of three battleships of a heavier, and more powerful ' type, than the battle-cruiser Quoen Mary,which was built in 1912; Had it not been for the decision of , the Canadian Senate not to proceed! with the. building of three Canadian -battleships,, the ;consti*uction;«o.fi.these .ves- - s'els '"would, not -Jiave |been, ~ %* ; I the"spring.• : By"'tlie/autu^:;- o|»/•■: 1915, Britain will.have at "sea. forty-* two Dreadnoughts, including thife Lord 'Nelson, Agamemuon, and ; New Zea-X land, and including two that 'are being laid down at Portsmouth , and Devonport. .'*"..
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 18 August 1913, Page 5
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110THE BRITISH NAVY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 18 August 1913, Page 5
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