U-BOATS ONLY
BEING BUILT FOR GERMAN NAVY DECISION TO SCRAP SEYDLITZ. REPORTED BY STOCKHOLM CORRESPONDENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, March 30. Germany has decided not to build more big ships or naval ships for the duration of the war, concentrating exclusively on U-boats, nearly 500 of which are at present on the stocks, says the Stockholm correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph.” Acting under instructions from Admiral Doenitz, commander of the German Navy, dock workers at Bremerhaven in the past two months have been dismantling and breaking up the 15,700-ton heavy cruiser Seydlitz, which is a sister ship of the Prinz Eugen and the Admiral Hipper. Her guns have been removed for coastal fortifications. Her armour will be employed in some part of the defence ring which Hitler is flinging round Germany.
The Seydlitz was the fourth Hipper class cruiser which has been building for almost three years, and she was nearly completed when the amazing decision to scrap her was taken.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 March 1943, Page 3
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