A Description Of A Torpedo Boat

wmoh will bo built at the Washington fiavy Yard, is to be I the Robeson. It will be 175 with 35 toet beam. JI - huil will be of iron, only three feet of wMoli will be out of' water. Thisexpoasd part, however, will be arradr pi tted witfi five-inch bands Öfiron backed with wood. Khe I Ijy two screws, and hor 5 are expected to drive her f'ourteen knots pei hour, minimum speed. The oniy ligging slie will have, wïrieh is a fair weather arrangement altogether, will eonsist of l ■■ !. Ancording to the proportion of Work now done in our yar.lK, it will takef liv close calculation, six hundred me onë year to build I . 1 of whom wil! Vio iron workers. The torpedo will contain one hundred pounds of powder atl tohed to au iron beam Whioh protrudes Erom thi below tiic water lino. This beam will be long, and so ad j usted .'is to be torced out by hand f rom a wateraoking, It will be worked by han i instes 1 of aa :'.■:■ I obstruction could be moro easily deteoí d in that way than in any other. It is intended, when ordera are frivou to that effect, that this torpedo símil mak t, under f ull head oi' ütcani, for an enemy's shij and rnn woll into her and exp'ode the torpedo by eleotrioity, the beam being withdrawn at the same time. The boat will beofcomparatively light dranght, requiring only eleven and n half foet oi' water.