FASTEST WARSHIP.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 16 November 1907, Page 3

FASTEST WARSHIP.

GERMANY'S LEAD L\ SPEED AT SEA. Tile German navy has won for itself the distinction of possessing the fastest warsnip in the world in the new tuvbineengin 'U torpedo-boat destroyer G 137. A week or two ago. the B.itish d: strojvr Cossack, built by .Messrs Camniell, Laiid, and Co., and designed foi a .-peed ol .J.J knots, achieved a speed of half a knot in excels of the contract i n her ti'ialrun, whicligavetheblueiibboiiK lier trial run, which gave the blue ribbon of the sea to tile British Navy. The- new German destroyer, however, iias exceeded this by nearly half a knot. Jt was built at Krupp's yard at Kiel, and designed for a speed of 3(J kn its only, but it succeeded on its trials whid; were run last week, in maintaining a speed ol :!:!.!( knots, with a full load On board. This is equivalent to nearly 3'J miles an hour. the Bnti-Ji destroyers \ 'ipi'T anil Cobra each did better than this. making more than :i" and 30 knots but they were both lost at si a shortlv a tier they were built. (iivatih'taip. is now buiMing a destroy. t, lite S«ift . whi. his rxpectiM to aMiirt a -peed of :ii; kinds on its trials, '" u "' ' tin ■>• four knots belter (han the ves-el. of previous I'.ritisJi gianiiues, it i- only two in advance of the C, 1.17. Germany is at present building twenty-four destroyers to Britain's thirteen.