NEW DESTROYERS.
SPEED 29 KNOTS. IDj TelCßraph.-Prets *»«nclftllon.-CoDTrlislit.l • London) September 12. , -,The newspaper "Engineering'-.' states hat tho Admiralty has placed V>rders for twenty torpedo-boat destroyers, to liavo: a spocd; vf twenty-nino knots an hour. • Their construction' will onnble thom keep the sea. in all weathers.. Soventeeri of the boata will be fitted with. Parsons's turbines, 'and (three with' Curtis's turbines..,... [The Admiralty prefers the slower destroyer tri the 30-40 knot.fliers 'if. the Tartar type, because of the better; sea-going qualities of tho former.. The argument against the fliers 'is that, while they mako worla's .records in. their 1 .own conditions, they loso 'speed; in. ■ a .'seaway, and shape'vr.-y badly in rough weather. With the slower; destroyer- there 'is,, claimed fc> be .a better-averugo speed in all weathers, and less liability to structural damage.j : < ■
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 611, 14 September 1909, Page 5
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133NEW DESTROYERS. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 611, 14 September 1909, Page 5
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