A FAST BOAT. Wonderful Speed of a Vessel Built for the Spanish Navy.
WondiUiT', shide->aie beincf m;i'lc in i.he coi function of toi pedo-boaU. The per fmmanee- of the now Thorneycioffc boat, built for the .Spanish (iovenunent, arc ama/in^. On throe runs over measured miles Hst week, :^c the tide, she av.n-a-ed over thirty milcv an hour. In the previous >\ook, vith tho tide in hor fax our, and a foiced draught, she positively aeccm-])h-ht\l thiity-thifO and a half niileh an hour. Such a boat ha' not much to fear fioni 111-- English lonelads which, bariin^ one or two recent exceptions, a-seiage fioin tweho to thntren knot-, and still lc-^o horn a gunboat ot the t)po uf the brand now Eiijr' J> ' jl liir ' *• v>nor>o nifixinnun .-.peed since sho"ha-< been in connni^^ion i-5 about s.u\on knots.
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 210, 9 July 1887, Page 8
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136A FAST BOAT. Wonderful Speed of a Vessel Built for the Spanish Navy. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 210, 9 July 1887, Page 8
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