Show A PIFTYMILESANHOUR BOAT It IH perhaps Interesting to examine the possibilities of speed that might be attained In a special unarmored cruiser cruis-er a magnified tovpedoboat destroyer of light build with scanty accommodation accommoda-tion for her large crow but equipped with an armament of light guns and torpedoes Let usassumc thai her dimensions di-mensions are abouOdouble those of the thlrlyknot dosiroyers with plates of double the thickness and specially strengthened to correspond with the Increased In-creased size length 120 feet beam IJ feet maximum draught 1i feet displacement dis-placement 2SOO tons Indicated horsepower horse-power 80000 there would be two tiers of watertube hollers these with the engine space coal bunkers etc would occupy the whole of the lower portion of time vessel the crows quartets and guns would be on the upper decks There ivould be eight propellers of nine feet In diameter revolving at about 100 revolutions per minutes and her speed would be about fortyfour knots She could carry coal at this speed for about eight hours but she ould bo able to steam al from ion to fourteen knots with ti small section of the boilers boil-ers more economically than other vessels ves-sels of ordinary type and power and When required all the boilers could be used and full power exerled In about half an hour From Steam Turbines and HighSpeed Vessels by the Hon C A Parsons in Applctons Popular Science Monthly for April |