BRITAIN'S ANTI-AIRCRAFT FLEET
IN ACTION FOR NAVY WEE
Five "C" Class
Cruisers To
Be Converted
During Navy Week this year, July 31 to Aug 7, the anti-aircraft cruisers Curlew and Coventry will demonstrate, for the first time in public, their powers of repelling attack from the air.
The Curlew's demonstration is to be given at Chatham and that of the Coventry at Portsmouth. In each case nine machines of the Fleet Air Arm will make the attack.
I have had the privilege of
specting the Curlew, one of the only PACIFIST
two floating A.A. batteries in exis- tence, writes the Daily Telegraph" naval correspondent
When the Mediterranean emer- gency threatened in the autumn of 1935 the two ships, 4,290 tons, were cruisers of the Reserve Fleet. that time their armament consisted of five fin guns
"PLOTTERS"
-D.S.O. CANON
Wearing over
Then a hand for conversion, they den emerged from dockyard completely pit of altered. In place of the five bi guns
Director Towers
pacifists
The service was in
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they mounted 10 4in A.A. quick-tion of the twenty-first ann firers, two multiple pompoms and of the Battle of the Somme, which
The phe numerous light machine-guns.
opened on July 1, 1916 the most
able to that tragic day of the war to Cumber-
where two land and Westmorland, whose } manhood fought and died. pin
gether. "There is to day a school of paci- "In this fists which, to my mind, is a sister and degrading feature of our public life," he said. school which tries as far as I can. see, to frighten our young men out of the idea of ever fighting for their
Parts of the superstructure were cut away to leave the guns a free field of five and magazines were re arranged to accommodate larger quantities of the different type of ammunition.
The lofty foremast was reduced to a mere stump surmounted by an immense rectangular platform country. unofficially known as the "bird bath" for the high-angle director tower. A second director tower is mounted aft
"It depicts in the most vivid co lours the appalling horrors through which we had to sex in battles like that of the Somme.
Thanks to the ingenious arrange- "I do not believe that any words: ment of the armament, several can be strong enough defornes guns can be trained simultane-that kind of conspirac ously on any point of the compe while the elaborate system of high- angle fire control ensures ec shooting by all guns.
MAN SEX MONTHS OUT OF
PRISON IN 21 YEARS
George Bedford, 76, who was stated to have been out of prison for only six months in 21 years, was sentenced at London Sessions to 12 months' im- prisonment for stealing a typewriter and other articles from Victoria Sta
The Navy appears to have a high opinion of these ships, since five other cruisers of the "C" class have been selected for con- version into anti-aircraft vessels. In the Navy Week display spection.
Det Sergt. Bramwall said that Bed- tators on shore will be able to see
ford had never worked, although he and hear, through lousd-speakers, described himself as a salesman He everything that happens on board had 15 convictions in all the first the Curlew before, during
after the attack
and conviction in 1885. In 1916 he was
sentenced to seven years penal servi sude, and in 1922 to five
penal servitude and five years preventive de tention, followed by a further three years in 1933
Dive Of Bombers When the alarm is given, “gen- eral quarters will be sounded by the ship's buglers. Officers and men in gas-masks will rush to their action stations, guns and controls will cleared away, and look-outs
up.
ment will then be “lined ons checked, and ring circuits tested. When the look
report "aircraft in sight
bullying and cunning old criminal" The officer described Bedford as
"When he was released from continued Sergt. Bramwall. manded that the governor should him a es to drive him to -Vactoria
The police regard him as th persistent Ingga they have had
and 1918, Bedford stole ~$20, of property,
Ted high-angle director a 10-roomed house amed in the target, fol
all guns, and fire will be will be moved and
tanes begin a dive bomb-
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