19 DECEMBER 1914, Page 2

A subject for great congratulation is the announcement made on

Friday that Messrs. Cammell, Laird, and Co. have just completed the light cruiser ' Caroline.' Her keel was laid on January 28th of this year. She was launched an September 21st, and delivered complete on December 17th, after satisfactory trials on December 15th. She has thus been completed in little over ten months. The contract date of delivery was May 21st, 1915. We congratulate Messrs. Cammell, Laird, and Co. and the gallant men who built her most heartily on their splendid achievement. They were fighting Britain's battles quite as truly as if they held the rifle. To adapt a noble phrase from Stevenson's Wrecker, " God bless every man who drove a rivet, swung a hammer, or built up the engines in the good ship Caroline."