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Torpedo Boats

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
June
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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A blue blok just issued give Incidentally, hidden almost by a mas3 of other Information, the contract price oí a large number of the torpedo boat destroyers now being con3trueted by private firms for the navy. These vessels are about 200 feet long, of about 230 or 240 tons displacement, and wlth engines of 4,000 or 4,500 indicated horsepower, attained a speed of 27 knots. Messrs. Yarrow, London, have buüt three of this larget type, the price for each being L37,400. Messrs. Thornycroft, London, have also built three at L36,430 each; Palmers' Snip Building company, Jarrow, get L37.107. Messrs. Thomson, Clydebank, who have some experience of high speed vessels, have done their work most satisfactorily 4r L34,792; the Naval Construction company ftt Barrow are to p;et L33,977, and although their vessels have not yet been trietl, í.here is every prospect of successful issue. By way of coniparison it may be interesting to state tiiat the Frenoh paid L30,528 for a 27-knot torpedo boac only 144 feet long, of 123 tons displacement, and 2,700 indicated horse-power. The costs are not available fcr anv larger torpedo boats of the French; but it is pretty evident that our craft are built at a very much less rate. The torpedo Aventuricr, 151 feet long, of 148 tons displacement, and 1,500 indieated norse power, and 23% knots speed, cost the French L1S,354; our total üeet of ten first-clasa torpedo boats, 140 feet long, and 23 knots, cost us on an average of f14,491 each. The same parliamentary book states that the contract price of the huil and machinery of the 14,000-ton cruiser Terrible, with Belleville boilers and engines, to give 23 knots speed is L543,347. It is being built ! by Messrs. Thompson, Clydeback. Tiie j contract price for the sister ship Fwe?ful, building at Barrow, is L535,252.

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Ann Arbor Register