AMERICA'S PURL
(Per Press Association— Copyi value of SPEEDY ships. NEW YORK, July 21. Th© Chamber of Commerce has urged th© Government not to build wooden ships as they are not speedy enough to elude submarines. The chamber has compiled a statement showing the percentage of attacked vessels destroyed iin relationship to speed. The statement is as follows: —Vessels with a speed of five knots 100 per cent ail knots, 95 per cent; soven knots 90 per cent; 8 knots 80 per cent; 9 knots 75 per cent; 10 knots 65-per cent; 11 knots 60 per cent.; 12 knots oO per cent; 13 knots 45 per cent; 14 knots 40 per cent; IS. knots 35 per cent; 16 knots 25 per cent; 17 know 20 per cent 18 knots 1,0 per cent.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 July 1917, Page 3
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132AMERICA'S PURL Hokitika Guardian, 23 July 1917, Page 3
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