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Thursday, 2 January 2020

Iraq wanted own navy according to the Dutch newspaper Het Vaderland dated 5 July 1933


An item referred to the newspaper Daily Herald which reported that king Feisal of Iraq during his stay in England tried to interest England in building a navy for his country. If the needed budget was approved were in England two gunboats and two smaller warships to be built and a large naval dock at Bachra to be made.