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Show AMERICAN SUBMARINES MAKE SUCCESSFUL TRIP NEW YOKK, Jan. 22. The trip of the submarine torpedo boats Tarantula, Yiper and Cuttlefish from Newport, R. I., to the New Yprk nav3 yard js causing much interest and comment ju naval circles. The trip was made in seventeen" and a half hours, although much of it was through rough and heavy seas and in the teeth of a very stiff breeze. This is the first time that boats of their class have made such a trip under their own power. Tho boats will go into drydoek and after scraping and repainting they will go to Newport News, said to be the longest trip over made by submarines. There they will undergo a number of tests. The three boats are eighty-three and a half feet long and havo a beam of eighteen feet, and aro fitted with with 250-hor6cpower six-cylinder gasoline gaso-line engines. They were .launched October Oc-tober 2i. |