CAPITAL SHIPS
BRITISH PREPONDERANCE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. May 26. While the loss of H.M.S. Hood must not be minimised, the British Fleet has 15 capital ships against a nominal roll of 12 available to the Axis fleets. But of these 12 only eight are now effective. Italy having lost her two 35.000-ton Littorio class battleships, one at Tarranto and the other severely damaged at Matapan. Of her Cavour class only two are available at the present time, one having foundered at Taranto and one having been damaged. Of Germany's six capital ships (two of them being pocket battleships, the Butzow and Admiral Scheer), the Gneisenau and the Scharnhorst are still in Brest, where they have received considerable attention from the R.A.F. Of the British battleships, the oldest is the Revenge, completed in 1915. and the newest is the Prince of Wales, commissioned in 1941.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 May 1941, Page 5
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