A FAST WARSHIP.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3024, 9 October 1888, Page 3

A FAST WARSHIP.

One of tho fastest warships of the r.rld is undoubtedly tho torpedo 'is6 Greif, of the German navy, inch on her recent voyage from Kiel Wilbolmshaven attained a speed of t knots arr ; hour. The Greif was unchfid in 1886, and was built of jel, at the Germania yard at Kiel, m designs by the German Admir>j, fler displacement is 2000 tons d her engines have ah indicated rse powor of 5400. From those ;ureß snd hor exceedingly fine lines, lioh givo. to jfcvessel the appearce of a torpift boat of immense «, it will beseen that speed was the ief object aimed at in Lor construcn. The Greif, consequently, may looked upon as one of the fastest, not th 9 fastest vessel of any marine power, if we except the Ouragan the French navy, and some foreign 'pedo-boats built in English yards, t which beat her record, Tho rlin Post, from which we have :en the above particulars, quesdb the authenticity of the data iplied with rogard tt|the speed some English torpedo-bo-tts, but m personal observation, we may ure our contemporary that they ate jstwortby, and that there is no id on this side to exaggerate rets actually obtained. Tho entire ; ice of the dNfc—of which vessel < may be proud-with the (option of tho,space provided for w and stores,Jktaken up by boilers, jines, and codijpikers. The vessel of the class called torpedo-boat iters, and, to aid her in that sere, she is provided with two powerelectrio search lights, two light '8 ol great range, and a largo num- ' of those bugbears of torpedo boats blver guns. The Greif has threo oke-stacks, and carries no sails, ire being only two short look-out sts.—lron. "■' —————— )he steamship companies at Adclaido making tbe exponmont of burning sd instead of coal, so far with satistory results. It is found that about i tons o( wood aro equal to a ton of r rhe Juchess of Buccleuch, on behalf ;the women of Great Britain and land, has presented tho Queen with amond and pearl necklace and carri ut a Jubilee present.

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