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Show TORPEDO BOATS BUILT HERE EORTHE RUSSIANS One Dinky Craft Will Cross Ocean Under Own Steam; Others Shipped as Freight NEW. YORK, Dec. 10. Nine torpedo boats, built at Perth Amboy, N. J., for the Russian Government, have been completed com-pleted and will leave the yards today. They have been taken apart and loaded on a barge, to be towed to New York and shipped as merchandise on s liner. The tenth boat will cross the ocean un- der its own power. Two six-cylinder gasoline gas-oline engines have been installed. Each is expected to develop iOO-horse-power and drive the little boat at a speed of twenty knots. The crew of eight men is already aboard the boat, which la eighty feet long. Below Be-low deck it is not possible to stand erect, for there is only a five-foot space. Should the passage be stormy the crew will be almost as effectually bottled up aa if In a submarine. The only entrance to the compartments com-partments below deck Is through a conning con-ning tower, from which the boat la navigated. navi-gated. Each boat will carry one torpedo tube. One of the five water-tight compartments Into which the hull is divided will contain the spare torpedoea |