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Four Contingent Battleships Ordered 1909
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Four Contingent Battleships Ordered 1909
Building a Dreadnought, at Barrow-in-Furness. Digging out the upper half of a Dreadnought turbine cover. Thedressing shop in the large iron foundry of the works of Vickers, Sons and Maxim. Showing the sand being removed from the casting by seven men with the length 20 ft and weighing about 25 tons, turbine cover just a tiny part of the battleship took three weeks to cast. Date: 1909
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