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BATTLESHIPS?

by

T is a bold man who pronounces the death sentence on a weapon of war; they so often reappear some- where in the armament mosaic a few years after in- Admiral

terment.

The torpedo-bont of the 90's reappeared in the Inst Sir war as the motor torpedò-boat.

William After the first world war the infantry soldier was condemned to death, as future wars would be fought by James tanks, acroplanes and artillery, but in the event his role was as important as it had ever been.

Commander-It- Chiet, Ports- the mouth, 1939- 42: Chief of Naval Inform- ation, 1943-4.

Except for their means of propulsion many of ships used for the great amphibious operations were very similar to those used in the 18th century.

From earliest

times the his- tory of all war weapons has followed

the

same general

lines,

There has been the period

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Britain's only remaining operational battleship recently returned to Devonport from the Mediterranean. After refit she joins the training aquadron. Soon all the world's big fleets will have withdrawn battleships from operational strength. lo their day finished-or will they come back with a different role? In this important article, ona of Britain's naval chiefs of World War 11 gives his verdict.

of gestation, during which the beliovors in tho new weapon have had a hurd struggle to convince the dis- believers of its value; this has been followed by rapid development, culminating in a short period of dominance over all other weapons: then, with the development of counter-weapons, the new weapon has been deprived of its dominatice and-found-ita faded out---

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were torpedn-boat-destroyers commissioned, the torpedo-boat

The battleship reigned supreme during the First World War, but another-new weapon, In this century the sub- the submarine, was now threa marine, the mine, the tank toning her position. and the aeroplane_have_all_ conformed to these im- mutable stages of develop ment.

It

was

Lome other simpler and less expensive method of operating seroplanes over the sen would. be devis. But that has not happened yet.

Nevertheless, warship design is undoubtedly in a transitional Make.

The answer to the question: "Has the battleship a future?” depends on what is meant by n "battleship." The term has always connoted the most powerful warship afloat, a ship under whose protection the trade-protecting and

trade- attacking vessels have operated, sisip whose destruction must be achieved in order to goin control of the scalines of com- munication.

A maritime power, entirely dependent on sea- borne imports, cannot survive in wor

unless

she

ean put into the battle warships as powerful as any ihat the

He was first to fly

over

TINCENT made "acrlel

England

..

my

LUNARDI the great morning, September the first-over the crowds of London Burged into the grounds full of voyage" In

expectation. England in 1784. At the Lunard describes the start: time he was secretary to the "At Ave minutes after two the Neapolitan Ambassador in last gun was fired, the cords divided and the balloon rose, London.

the company returning Before 150,000 spectators signals of adleu with the most he ascended in a balloon unfeigned acclamations and from the grounds of the plauses. Ilon. Artillery Company, miracle effect war that of Moorfields, and landed two which surrounded the and a quarter hours later in and they passed with incredulity a field near Ware, Hertford- and amazement into the most shire,

and joy.

ол the

ap-

anultitudes place,

* expressions of "ap-

Lunardi recorded the Lunardi was airborne, to- flight and its preparations, gether with A pigeon, which in a series of graphic letters soon escaped, cat, and a dog. In elevated mood and apparent❤ ly not feeling the slightest fear,

which he sent

to his

guardian, Chovaller Gherar- he "uncorked a botüe, drank, do Compagni.

ate, and wrote just as in my

32

These were subsequently study." put into book form, and 21 The temperature dropped to copy, now rare, which runs descended

degrees,

and Linardi In a cornfield on to CG pages, is being offered the common of South Mimms to innd the cat, which was affected by the cold.

for sale at Sotheby's.

Money trouble

That was at half-past three. Again he ascended and rolled on northward.

UT "at 20 past four I spacious

IN turning the pages I

found Lunardi's first dif- Help refused ficulty, as so often with pioneera, was money.

B descended Guinea subscribers, we meadow in the parish of Ston- are told, were offered admit- don, near Ware, in Hertford- tance and could have ashire. Some Inbourers were at chair near the globe the day work in the fields, and I asked

them for assistance. of the ascending and may view the construction at the they would have nothing to do "They exclaimed, however, Lyceum (off the Strand) with one who came in the de- four different times."·

vil's house or on a dovil's horse."

to A young woman eventually

go

secured the cords and a of villagers arrived.

Lanardi records

crowd

"For half a guinea you got a seat on benches next the chairs and could twice to the Lyceum.

Five hundred and twenty General Smith followed him on yards of oiled silk, in blue horseback from London, as did a number of other gentlemen and red strips, were used to riders.

that a

tic

make the balloon, which They all adjourned to was bellow-filled with "clas- Bull Inn at Ware, and the MP tic air"a gas similar to for Hertford, Mr William Baker, afterwards look Lunardi to his the fire-damp of the mines, seat at Bayford Bury.

Twenty thousand people

saw the balloon take shape.

But

with the cash

problem surmounted

Died of shock UNARDI'S, flight had not gone

without incident

Lunardi was faced with a ground. A

rival..

on, the

saw.

woman who, him jettison an car ralstook it

A Frenchinan, de Morel, an- for a body and died of shock. nounced he would

姐 attempt

A jury

acquitted a young

balloon flight from a field ad- criminal in their haste to view

enemy can operate. I the other maritime

powers decide that the existing form of

Joining the grounds of Chelsea the balloon as it crossed battleship, developed from the

Hospital, some weeks before the courthouse. first dreadnought is no

Lunardi's venture. no longer the dominating factor because of her vulnerability

to attack

by other weapons, and there-

forc

Burst in flames

And It had n good Lunardi records:

over

Press. "My fame hus not been sparingly diffused by the

newspapers which in

their fleets the massive heavily. MORET'S balloon, how England are the barometers of

decide to exclude from armoured and heavily-gunued ship, we can do likewise with- out jeopardising our prospects in a By the time the Second World the remaining

future war, provided all War broko out.

units in our evident that operating battles battleworthy no any they may fleet are ng seaworthy. and ships in the narrow seas within encounter in battle. easy striking distance of enemy shore-based aircraft would be a hazardous business, but that that striking distance beyond the battleship WOS still the decisive weapon.

of

"TASK FORCE”

arise, a ship to fulfil the same functions as the battleships of the Pacific task forces.

battleship's position as the dominating weapolis-10- She could no longer, steam proudly out

day occupied by tho "task of harbour, and

1.c., It was the British battleships farce."

carriers guard- defy all comers; she must take that prevented the deployment ed against surface

and sub- with her an anti-submarine of the German battleships off marine attack by cruisers screen of destroyers. The screen the coasts the Americas, destroyers, and escort vessels, The battleship enjoyed its was still the arbiter in the sea have brought us to, our knoos the need of a harder core will was effective and the battleship which, if permitted, would but it is most probable that period

of dominance for war, but the tremendous success in a few

wecks, as all our several centuries because no of the German submarines

zeaborne Imports would have: counterweapon was forth- operating on the trade router

stopped. coming. Even if the lesser convinced many that the days

of the

battleship were vessels attacked in numbers numbered.

In that event the term battle- For the great maritime they could make no impres-

campaign in the Pacific, the ship will be perpetuated in a underwater ship with strong developed пе A-vivid Press and platform Americans sion on the massive hulls

arminst methods of conducting sca-war, Protection

torpedoes, and powerful broadsides of campaign to stop building any by task forces. The battleship strongly armoured decks, and

more battleships was short- a battleship.

the hard core, but powerful batteries of rocket Lived: the antidotes to the sub- was still marine Listening appliances, aircraft flown from carriers be runs. depth charges, screening vessels came the dominant weapon. By efficient the end of the war the battle -were remarkably was not until the end of the during the last year of the war, ship had, so to speak, lost a lot 10th century that a counter- and while they could be ex of ground. weapon appeared in the form of peeled to improve, the sub- small, fast vessel with a marine was not expected to be

able to improve torpedo armament,

ito defensive powers against them.

a

SET-BACK

VULNERABLE

"

E

ever, burst into flames as it public opinion."

Lunardi found that was being inflated.

100,000 Lunardi now decided to

copies of papers a week were

start from the Honourable sold in London at that time..

In

Artillery Company's drill ground

The Moorfields. ladies of London, he records, crowded round him volunteer Ing to accompany him on tho flight.

But Lunardi resisted their ap- peals and went up alone. On

He ends, "Ministers of State are checked and kept in awe of themand the ......papers. ATT generally right."

Bernard Drew

-(London Express Servici)

C.V.R. Thompson Reports The American Scene

NEW YORK." You will be hearing more and

its of

Cornelia

and Sweden's Marta Toren

HOLLYWOOD is on the Burch, France's ceclie Lubri

talkies arrived for new stars among the teen-agers.

This new type of battleship will not, like its predecessors, be

Britons are

not barred, THE NEXT POPE. 1 in wides ly believed in America, the final arbiber in a sea-war, and there are jobs worth may be an American-Francis, fought mainly by submarines

£250 a week for beautiful Cardinal Spellman. and aircraft, but it will be the girls, preferably under 18. Cardinal Spellman recently. most powerful vessel afloat and therefore

Handsome youths are want attacked the widow of his old of the name. worthy

friend, F.DR. In an open lottor To BUT strange to say, her place

ed too.. sum up.

The existing

he accused Eleanor Roosevelt of The old stars in Hollywood's being anti-Catholic. She up- tho has been, for How, it was asked, could a

time form of battleship, designed to For a few years the battle being, taken by the battleship defend herself against ship's position as the dominat of ship that was not expected will not bo

one type fight ships of similar design,

heaven are burning out. Six of ports a Blll before Congress to.. a night attack by a number of

the ten leading actors are near prohibit parochial schools from perpetuated; her factor in maritime ing

war

to last for MAITY years,

function of providing

rallying thesa torpedo-boats, which she seemed to be unasailable. and

sharing in Government aid to would not sight before they then with the

for the rapid develop.

point and protection Before the war, carriers were lightly had fired their deadly weapons?' ment of

mmed and the

light- aeroplane's siriic- regarded 015 temporary

by armoured vessels guarding ing power appeared a far more pedients, a transitional

type that she serious menace to WIN

her supre of warship. It seemed incon- the trade routes will pass to for

Armoured a short

the macy, now

uous to spend many millions strongly

capablo of dealing with ndi

1

1

The answer could not, and perlod she lost position. But the antidolo was armour--were limited by the very large crew, very vulnerable

found in the form

of size of the ship, whereas it was to attack by any other vessel, against them--and, for quickfiring small evident that the striking power which could only put relatively battle ship will be as good pearchlights, guns and torpedo not defence, of aeroplanes would

pre few aeroplanes into the battlehame as any other. and when, a little later the first gressively increase.

It would not be long before.

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antidotes eruOUD her dominant anti-aircraft guns and thicker on a great ship manned by a weapons that may be brought

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A and mind his own business, cannot go on indefinitely. Women who have roared Left-winger Glen Taylor to be held together with paper in the Senate. The presiding clips and adhesive tape are a officer, who was reading.a problem to cameramen.”

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