FASTEST MAN-OF-WAR AFLOAT

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2313, 24 December 1889, Page 2

FASTEST MAN-OF-WAR AFLOAT

* Philadelphia Pa ., September 15,1889. The new steel cruiser Baltimore, whioh left ber dock at Cr*mp's shipyard on Wtdneaday laar, and prooeeded down the Delaware rivet as far as the Delaware breakwater, returned this afternoon. A broom fastened to the foremost and another to the nulom^at were pubic evldecoo of the suaoesa obtained by tie balldsrs of the vessel, Her oommandir, Oapfc. Sohley, said that the trip w»8 entirely tuooesafal, and the engines were all right and worked rdmlrably. The vsaael went 80 or 90 tullea oat, »nd Is a beautlfol sailer. " You <jan be porfeotly confident lv saying that sbe le the fastest nun or war aflj&t." Another officer Btated that the Baltimore left lait vYedneaday and anchored \ff Ship John Light, the weather being then too rough for ha? trial. On Friday morning a preliminary trial* was Lad, and on Saturday abo vent oat foe her regular cffiolal four fcoutsa' trial, undet c mtnand of Giptaln Joseph Steel, All data and Indicator oirdo were tsken every few tnlnr.toa from both ends of every cylinder on t*te ahlp, whloh made for ibrea hours itn average of about 20 2 10 knots an hour In a pretty good sea, M*ny of the people on board thought sbe was makl>g letter time, hot/ allowing for a'l errors In calculation, log lines, oic, she Is bellevad to have made 20 2*lo knots Tho .rial indioatEß, It ia aaid, tba 1 - (she la tHe fastest vessel of any ahlp of her tone* age afloat-, and the fastest man-of-war of any country. The Baltltrore ran stialght rhtari all the time, There was nothing {com the time sbe left the dock ontll her re 1 urn that coaaalooed auy stopping. It is al.o Btated that the Baltfinore will pro bably go more thai 10.0Q0 horse power, »nd, as 9000 iiorae power was the amount cotttt'aoted for, it will if th's teat be tree, g've the Cramps a boi.na of at toast 10C0 h^r«o. power, Ie will be two or three weokfl before the oaloojatlons to be m»de by the United States offioiala will be completed and made publlp,