Costliest Of War Ships

The King Edward VII. will be the most costly war ship that has ever been constructed. The original estimates were for £1,500,000, and though they have been cut down it is authoritatively stated by prominent officials at Devonport dockyard that the total expenditure will amount to well over £1,400,000. This outlay on a fabric which a well directed torpedo might annihilate makes one realize how costly the game of modern naval war would prove.