Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-05-14
ENGLAND BUILDS
I.227TH WAR SHIP
The Thunderer, New Dread
,opght Marks -Four Centu-
iss of Building on Thames.
ONLY ONE YARD LEFT
s,,.s of Historic Stream Have Felt
Weight Of All Sorts Of
Fighting Craft
rrrctlt DISPATCH

| --.4tfr degree than usual upon IN
--.,s-af.1rs Tor the laying OF the kee
cha new nrsadnought the Thundere
E..t,+ab. Do. En- the yards OF the Thame
,.,- W,-ts THE laying Of that kee
-,.,s5 fse initial step toward bringini
,-., material existence the twelve hundred
IA twenty seventh man-of-war bum fol
-. po,aI Navy ON the River Thames dur
70, fs1- centuries of war ship construc.
.,- an that waterway alone. In that greai
-,v, which has risen along the shores of
,tis tis.1rI. stream there have been
.,rts-s5 rs1rescntauvcs OF every class
d, srbtlne ships. from calling three
s..ss-s Of centuries ago and sloors OF war
.-s -orye,.ss of the days of sails and
,.,.s 20 modern battle ships, armored
.-..s-s torpedo craft and destroycrs.
General interest aside from Keen at
,.rtIon 10 The Increased opportunity for
.-,ovmsn. Afforded by the construc-
.,, OF this new sea monster at the
-,,-ss Iron Works has been reminded
,,,be shrinkage Of shipbuildius facili-
.., which have marked the banks of
oh. Thames during recent years. The
,bipbuldIug yards formerly extended
In prarucally an unbroken chain from
rsisrick TO Gravesend. Just hunded
Years ago there were twenty -thrce
Yards in operation. and al nine Of these
7olnts-at Graveseud. Blackwell. Lime
house Mllwau. Poplar. Northneet,
Rotherhlte. Woolwich and Deptford
they built sIxty-four and seventy-four 7
Gun ships OF the line. while no fewer .
than twenty large ships OF the line were
d construction on the stocks In yards
a, the points named Forty years ago F.
there we're seven yards able 10 build
ronclads. to-day there is but one-that .
To- which the new Thuuderer's keel Is f..
being laid down capable OF perform
.ag work for the British navy
SOME HISTORIC CRAFT
"Of the twelve hundred and twenty six
British war ships launched on the I
Thames Mr Edward Fraser has written [
Ia the Graphic. considerably more than
hair the number were ships carrying each !
shy guns and more, 'siXty-fours' and
ssventy-fours eighties and ninety ,
sights no 90 800 gum ship.-ships rated ,
.or the line NJ battle. as the Old phrase ,
FHt Ten uf Henry Wis war fleet d
10 go back tl .he earliest times from Q
which there are records were Thames y
llls, thirty of queen EuzabetH's. ten OF O.
lanes Is. seventy ~ Cromw,IUs. forty \
her Charles T., eighty under William o.
Ill., and queen Anne. and some three hum o.
red and twenty during the eighteenth "
sat1rT between l-li. when George l. came r
'he throne. and 1915. the close u the p
rsai war with Napoleon. Ga addition TO .
paari of SIXTY from 1s5 90 The present
me- Including the battle ships duncan N.
ID Donaa|.s. uuv serving o.. sea, TIE.
feat modern pra-preadnougut cr.iser -.
lack Prince and tac new pryaduuugAt.
'tt.o ship tae rmnderer, now begun.
N Trafalgar loo net eleven OF the
e1}-saEnn ships that formed Nelson
he % battle we're London or Thames
DIDO ships .3. of them launched from
e royal dock yards OF WooIwich and
.p.iori, seven built Cor the navy In PR
Re sa.yyards 90 Blackwell Grayesend, -
ltherhte and elsewhere on the river ''
even out of Nelson's thirteen ships at
3 battle OF the Nle had been sent anoat W
ue Iaamss--eyen of them built at ",
way, l''1'. iHe other four az peptiord "a
d Woowigh Thirteen Of Duncan's six on
p az Damp'rdovu were Thames built All
'-oi-Nar-u.ne OF them In private yards,
Ven o. the seventeen men-of-war that Z
d part az tl. Commandment OF Sebasto- ai'
a uc grI...r war .,yer. ais, .rbam.s Su