NEW BATTLESHIPS
INTENDED TO BE WORLD’S BEST CONSTRUCTION PLANS IN U.S.A. HUGE OUTLAY INVOLVED. By Telegraph—Press Association Copyright, WASHINGTON, November 3. Bids have been opened and are considered satisfactory for the construction at private yards of three 35,000-ton battleships which, with the fouith being built at the navy yard, will cost approximately 280,000,000 dollars. This is greater than the original cost of all the battleships now with the fleet. The four new battleships will be offensively equal, if not superior, to any comparable ships in the world. They will carry nine 16-inch guns and thenspeed will exceed 25 knots. The Navy Department has also announced a modification of the ban on rigid airship building, permitting the immediate construction for training and development purposes of a metalcovered airship 325 feet long, with a gas capacity of a million cubic feet. It will cost 3.000,000 dollars.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 November 1938, Page 5
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144NEW BATTLESHIPS Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 November 1938, Page 5
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