Show Speed of the Charleston SANTA BARBARA Cala May 12Tha cruiser Charleston left this port yesterday morning steaming south for sixty miles and turning north again went ahead under a full head of steam making an average speed of eighteen and a half knots with a development of 5500 horse power and 107 revolutions of her engines This record was maintained for a period of seventeen minutes This established the fact that as the Charleston stands she is one of the fastest modern fighting machines afloat not only of her type but inclusive of the foreign entire navies class of cruisers in America or |