Show THREE FORMIDABLE BLE CRUISERS ARE ADDED TO FLEET FLET FLEETs J s f 4 S a 5 C f 4 L 4 s 4 tJ S Se e 5 5 5 e c C J 5 t Th T The first submarine torpedo redo boat constructed by dickers Sons Maxim the ter Holland The illustration bat is from a I snapshot a taken according just as to the plans plas vessel furnished emerged emer ed by from In i ae T San Francisco Call Cl Three Thre armored cruisers Good Hope Leviathan and King Alfred have been bee turned over oer by the contractors to t the admiralty within the te specified time of ot delivery The Th two last named hav have passed passe through successful trials and andare andare are a now fitting for service serice at the te dock dockyards doc dockyards yards and the King Alfred Afred was denv delivered ered June 8 at Portsmouth The latter ship was wa laid down Aug ug 11 1 1899 1699 the th Good Hope Sept Sept 1 11 1559 and the te Levia than Nov Nor 30 1899 1599 while the Drake built bUit at Pembroke dockyard and be begun beun beun gun un April Apri 24 1899 is still sti farther from ton completion They are Identical In all aR particulars and are Of f 1100 tons horsepower and twentythree knots knot speed The average estimated cost of the contract built buit ships exclusive exclusive sive of ot guns gns Is and that excusive oil oll o the Drake while the com corn cost of or the six si armored cruisers ers building for the United States navy will vill wU approximate mate each tug ing ig armament The American armored cruisers are practically of ot the same t type ype pe and size si as a the British Br ships and aid ald have a displacement ement of 1360 tons but only horsepower and a calculated speed of knots kots Experiments made In fitting the tor torpedo torpedo jedo boat destroyer Star Str with bilge wit bige keels have given satisfactory results and all al the boats boat of that tt type In the British navy nav will be fitted with wih bilge bUge keels which will wU check the rolling to a great extent without appreciably re re their maneuvering the speed seed or interfering with wih The British torpedo toredo boat No o 60 broke her main shaft last lat month while fifteen miles out at sea sea Mr Lyne gunner in command made all aU sails sais with wih awn Ings etc and reached an h bay in six hours This Ti experience may lead lea I jo to providing pr iding all aU torpedo craft with suf canvas cn to overcome the other otherwise otherwise otherwise wise serious actions serous results result of ot a complete ro sea breakdown of the machinery machiner while at Sir Francis Francs Evans Ev advises the Brit te ish admiralty to invite Invie designers out outside outside side of the navy nav to submit plans for vessels of war The London Engineer I Cpus calls cais attention to the fact tact that outside of Elswick and Barow Barrow there tere are probably probably ably no naval architects competent to design d a a warship In I n July 1885 Charles Chares t Cramp expressed somewhat similar sImlar views stating that there ther were hardly I four In the world of which two were in England and none in the United States who could design a ship Unite of ot war wa He has nas probably pr modified his views somewhat by this time for there are ae now several skillful designers in our navy but it is a waste of ot time for others other not in the U e navy to attempt that n n T u u OL UL 11 LI is 10 more 01 or u a specialty than tan that tat of ot yacht and steam I Iship ship design and in the he isolated cases I where a a designer designee has ha made II a a success of ot it I the plans were simply borrowed bOr owed and reproduced with slight alight wih and immaterial changes I Japan owns the fastest f test and most efficient destroyers In any navy The latest additions addI ons are the morn te ing ing tide and built buit by I of The order for these two o boats was a given ghen Nov No iff 1900 and the hoisted the Japanese flag fag on Feb 20 1902 1902 The contract called caned for knots speed Seed with horsepower and kot the trial developed an average of knots knot and 75 horsepower during three consecutive hours The boats boat are of ot the usual destroyer type 16 feet i tye eight Inches In length twenty feet nine f 1 Inches In i s beam and 3 tons displacement on on a a mean draught of six feet feet The I I British BlUIsh destroyer Albatross also built by Is the only boat ex exceeding exceeding ceding the speed spee of at the te th but bu t the te English destroyer built buit in 1898 is I s ts eleven feet longer tons ton s greater displacement and horse horsepower hore horsepower power over the Japanese boat bat The first frt vessel built bunt In Japan for a foreign government was launched at a t Kobe Robe last l t month from the yard of at the th e te tl Kawasaki KwaK Dock company compan The vessel vesse l was wa built buit for the te Chinese Chiese customs custom sean ser ice and add ad is of tons One interesting g fact In this connection is this that t while the Chinese Chines government con for a steamer of 00 tons the th e builders voluntarily increased the size siz e to tons for the te same cost and an d thereby obtained a bounty allowed by b y dy the Japanese government It I is within n the bounds of ot possibility that Japan apan may may become a competitor in the worlds I shipbuilding in the near future for the notion oton that hat its people are simply imi I in Work Vork is shown show to ne be incorrect by the rapid development of many industries Its It young men sent abroad for education In various branches return to their native coun try tr well wen equipped d to teach those at home and this is I especially the te case cae with wih engineering military and ad naval students Japan apan has ha men and money to inaugurate enterprises hitherto hiter mo monopolized by Europe and the te United States and the te advantage of low wages The daily daiy pay pay of a shipwright in Yo kohama ranges from 40 to 45 cents cent a day and and with wih machine tools to work with wih as a the European or American workmen who receive from 51 1 to 4 a day is able to turn tur out work probably as good and at an absurdly low cost according to t our standards The steamship combines and the ship building monopolies of the United States and Great Britain may have a formidable competitor in the little brown men of the Orient i |