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Fleet Target Ship.

Oral Answers to Questions — Royal Navy. – in the House of Commons at on 28 June 1933.

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10.

asked the First Lord of the Admiralty what is the estimated expense in the present financial year of running His Majesty's Ship "Centurion" as a fleet target ship with the attendant destroyer His Majesty's Ship "Shikari"?

Sir B. EYRES MONSELL:

The estimated expense in the present financial year of running these two vessels is £50,200.

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Has the Admiralty any scientific means of registering the accuracy of firing without this expense?

Sir B. EYRES MONSELL:

We conaider it is the best practical experiment.