BRITAIN’S ANSWER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 February 1941, Page 6

BRITAIN’S ANSWER

9 (NEW BATTLESHIPS COMPLETED ■BELIEVED TO BE IN RECORD TIME t j H M.S KING GEORGE V. ‘ j Britain today has given the world lan example of how Utile effect the ’! Nazis' air onslaught has had on her ’ (war effort I! M.S. Kmg George V. i launched early in 1939. has arrived at j J the famous American naval yard, AnJmipMis. bringing to the United States (I the new British Ambassador. Lord | Halifax ‘ j In limes of peace. lhe filling out of ‘ in battleship in under two years would ibe considered almost impossible. Yet, . ‘with the shipyards of the country bej iing constantly attacked from the air, i this feat has been accomplished in ;* '■time which, when it is revealed, will ■ probably prove t>« be a world record. It was stated, unofficially, in Antee rtean journals two months ago. that r not only King George V. but Prince 1 ‘ of Wales, laid down al the same lime. * i were m service with the Mediter- ‘. ratienn Fleet. f There are live ships of King George *; V class, being, in addition to the ves- ■ sc] which has just reached the United States. Prince of Wales. Duke of York. Jrlltcoe and Beatty They are the 1 i fastest anti most heavily armed ships ’:at sett The first two were laid down .al the Tyr.o and at Birkenhead on January I 1L57. the day after the termination "'of tin battleship building holiday imi p<e< J by ihe Lamdon Naval Treaty (J f ■ : I’iJi) They are of 30.000 loris and their ’. main arm.tme:". rnnsists of ten l-l-ineh ' ; gun The mounting of these is revolutionary They are in three turrets ’ —two carrying four guns and one two ■gum* One four-gun turret amt the two-gun turret are mounted forward ami the remaining four-gun turret i- ; mom.ted aft The after turret <m the fuj'ei ,is*.|e is raised !<> life over the (our gun turret HIGH-RANGE GUNS. "i The 14-inch guns are new models, .mt :t is as-wrled that them eifeetive range, as measured by the perforation '-of a given thickness of armour, is greater than that <if earlier 15-uich puns In miditiim. earn of the new vr cl- carries sixteen aID-mrh guns ' The-e Lm- the mam armament, are of a new type .mb are claimed to be the lim'd i ■•i'rs'tym meum* air attack yet • ■ ■. -. d The we-.gh- «.f armour of the-'- ves- ' ;t-| ■ .-. riv<''i a-. TT.ir'ki titnas. and the ’ : th.-ww- . at **;<■ waterhne as sixteen ’ ■!ichr my •j -w ‘hern as near In-mb ; and ai ■ - 'T> j rrai.f :-w pi'i-fttide : w- Un like ih»- present bat th" hip- ml t ■ ■ I ■ -. . • . • ;. -.- hav<- nm provided for any t>ii<•1 lube The is probably the mffomve <>f pr.ti-lW.d t-Xpericnee •it found (at Jutland that :• i ) were <>( httle e < ..pil.d Ship-. These ;; e ee'e-;' .st :.ea without ;t screen <•( de- ■-. ■ ■■ ■i - .di *< | Ws.dly designed t<: ( I’pi-is e . ami if a Vit’pedn a'!u<-k is i|e le- m.iih , it . It »r«- Gi«- « f -.:<<*■ -■ . ties; small !e..a.-. .<!*> u-.ed Aa.-tiier p 111 I- tn. t .! w.m’d be (..!, ! , nJ (a t'ayil.d ■■he- m ■cli.'W to ,e> enemy J batth ■a , .. 'm bo e thm i. • ■ : be hof’! ■ ■ ' ■ e ■■■ . a ee r-J t hree ar la >|. ia.nes, e ■ . .. - ■ a.- I | (! < <-: I .cm d heS -mb T.-W1 I Je V a.- the .We . ; , thel-. !;ee. mJ, ' .. .h . be« I a!UH W.W-.i E.e <; Wl-.1- . ' •.■■■• o-a 'e.h Lv 40 070 tm.i at.d :sri;.-

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