CRUISER SPEEDS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 736, 8 February 1910, Page 5

CRUISER SPEEDS.

OVE S .29 KNQTS BT A THIBD-CI/ASS GERMAN BOAT.' - - " By Telegranh—Press Association— Conrricht ' t i Berlin, February' e. ■ L 4232' tons, in her*speed trials at Danzig, rer!M Iniote aii hour.Si' ihe designed speed was 25 knots.

, SOME COMPARISONS

Tho Mains tiro or three months ago mad* a speed record for Gorman oruisere reaching 28 krote. .■.S he has ■ aow betteroti ■WS ooosderahly, reaching 29 3-s': knots, ° ■s W* resigned: speed. '■ s ? eod » attained by the ■ British. Dreadnought-cruifiera—"over 17 Cre ?i, to, the Invincible, 17,250, tons is thug exoeoded; but as the Main?/ .(4232 ,tons) -is. a much .! smaller C ™J' t?® comparison is not justified. KU. S, S poOTblyvthe_ British type iof .cruiser, • to the- Mam .moetoloaely. approximates, is the eecomtolasa ortnser Bristol, 58?" oomplotwg.. Her " displacement is 680 torn more, thaa the German, and m each caso tho designed awed •is the same, 25 knots. ' It mil be interesting, to pee how "tie imstol type tarns out,.not only because °t the attention which Germany is rivine .to ; highspeed ahjp a of. fj,i. ..olas,',but because,each, crif ,the three 'units ra ; Pwtto/Plertiech^ni>iii eon. • toyi tnre© Bnstols, and' n«v prowtod ' w,u The Canadian. squadron will ' also oontem , one Boadioea. The: Boadioea.: is tb« cnuaer. type', (9300\\ tboa, ' designed. speed -25 vknots) .that immediately preceded the Bristol. Tho ■Bellona; a aster.; of, the . attained 27; i-5 knots M hour in-her trials. Tho Mainj .totwtceredthia by nearly .two knots. ■ ihe .MMi)z,:,whiah.\w«a-'kunohod : in January, last,; is .. wrth' turbines : of the, Allgemeiiie EloctriciiateGosollechaf t system. The speed of some of the other Uermon small oruisers :haa'b?en given as follows .-The Emden, 25 knots; the , ; P r ■wfci <">d the" Stettin,' >5,17 knots. ■: In ,all.-, these 'cases tlwde* i tagged speed. has-been. exceeded;