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Wednesday 2 November 2016

New destroyers for New Zealand were of the Swift type according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1910-1911 no. 3

An item referred to the magazine Engineering reporting that the destroyers built for account of New Zealand were of the Swift type.(1) A large disadvantage of this type that the coal bunker capacity was such small that at full speed all coal was used.

Note
1. The Swift of 1.825 tons was launched at Cammell Laird, England on 7 December 1907 and sold on 9 November 1921.