HUGE BATTLESHIPS
CONSTRUCTION IN U.S.A. VESSELS OF OVER 60,000 TONS. (Received This Day, 12.25 p.m.) WASHINGTON, March 20. Naval experts in the House of Representatives said today that the next five battleships to be built under the two-ocean fleet programme would be from 60,000 to 65.000 ton dreadnoughts, the world’s largest mass. A member of the House of Representatives Naval Committee said the super-battleships would be of 58,000 treaty tons but, when fully armed, would displace approximately a 65,000 tons mass. He said these battleships were among the seven' for which the Navy let contracts on September 9. 1940.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 March 1941, Page 6
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