RACE UNDER THE SEA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3004, 29 September 1908, Page 3

RACE UNDER THE SEA.

Considerable interest ha 3 bean . arpused in French naval circles by the news that the Minister of Marine ha 3 decided on a mutch between the sjbmersible and the submarine E neraude with the object of tasting the comparative saa-going qualities of these respective types. The travels chiefly on the surface, diving only when about :o go into action Tne submarine ,will travel almost entirely under water. The race is designed to test the advantages of the tw> tyoes in regard to safety and seaworthiness as well as speed. The race, which is to take place ove'a diatince of about eight hundred miles, will commence and end at "C leroours?, the two vessels, after .leaving t'-at port, proceeding to Bre3t and DuntUfK, and returning to tne Bturting-point. Ths sujmer.Hible Pluvios*. of the Liubwut tvpe, has two steam engines, each of 350 h.p. Her speed at her trials was 12.34 knots on the surface and 8.5 knots below the surface. The submarine Emerauae has petrol motors of 340 h.p. each. Her :raJius of action is 1,500 miles. At her trials sba developad a speed of 'twelve knots on the surface and 9.1 • knots under water. Daring the entire voyage the submfraible will be escjrted by the Admiralty tug Mouflon, with a nunv. ber of high officials from Cherbourg on board.