TRIAL OF THE TORPEDO BOAT.

Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1329, 24 October 1884, Page 4

TRIAL OF TH E TORPEDO BOAT.

Th<rNe<# Zealand Times gives the following description of the trial of * the Torpedo boat [ On ' Tuesday last : — r Steam .was gojrup yesterday for the -firßt tiiiie sinee 'she has been in^ fch ; e' ?i colbny 7 'm the" 'torpedo' boat intended for Auckland, and she was taken -out fqr ; a, spin; to the 'Bead^s aipjci / bjack , by ; „ Captain > ..FairchiljL Besides tfte^rap tain ;and, crew, which consisted of five men, there were on board'jjßJCaiptains' • '- and Bendall, two Press representatives, and several other : gentletiienN-The-little steamer started from alongside tfer^^mda'aV^pto'-l^aridwehV o'^i^ej&rjj, to, .Pencarrow lighthousei re^jUTgSpg,by way ;i of ., "Worser and Or^entg.l Bay 3, ; and round iLambtoj) Harbor, cojooing baqk to the , Hinemoa a^B,4s.pimj IM .No log was used, and tljerie o iW&F9 :•; no . attempts made: at dgt;erjninipg her speedy but she jmust atti.mes/ha^ejgqneiat the rate. of.con«Biderably over 15 knots an hour. The; trial, which-was. merely a preliminn ary one for the' l puritose of testing the engines, gave great satisfaction taa.ll OH bcfard 1 , \ At ihe'Heaatt' whe£e a.c^ndic'erable swell was running tW »t4ame?ishowed herself; a very, gbbd sea boat, and the ; engineer y wßts'wel]' satisfied^ with^tbeworkiog of the en* sinei, to his^ .-state*ment, went like clockwork. The consumption of coal during the jtrip w«S 4b'but f 7cwt^ ; ; Th<9- • torpido j boat did her, best iip th'e Mana 7 . po6B^oi^g J tJuV' 'io " Ly tteltbn, and' w»s gaining^ on x Eer, butirthe big steamef tfatf a gopd s'tiari'fi om the wharf, got'tdofar' bitt" to sea to te followod up.,,^This'mo'rningr^lie official trial trip', will \be made,' and the members 6* th4 General^Assembly have been invited; to wimess it. a