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Show 'build new airship for british. navy Special Cable to The Tribun. LONDON", April 13. Much mystery a iil secrecy surround tho operations which are in progress in tho great shed of the Cavendish dock at Barrow, Bar-row, owned by Messrs. Yickors, Son & Maxim. It is believed a now aerial cruiser for the British navy is in course of construction. It was from this shed last year that airship No. 1 was launched one Sunday Sun-day morning, with disastrous results. Humor credits tho design of the second naval airship with being on a smaller scale than that of ' No. I. and it is stated that tho vessel will carry one gondola instead of. the two attached to No. I. Still more important is tlte report Hiatal gnu has been designed for uso in airship? and aeroplanes. The weapon is said to be light in construction and to bo shaped like a telescope, and it. is further stated it lias been sut.isfaetorilj' tested on Vick-ers's Vick-ers's range on the Cumberland coast. The great construction, shod in tlio Cavendish dock has been screened by a new curtain, rendering observation of what is going on withiu impossible, but there is good reason to believe that the new aerial cruiser is already more than half completed. |