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Show NEW DESTROYER FOR SUBSEA1R1PS Navy Department Is Busy With Plans for Two Types of Anti submarine Craft. WASHINGTOV Dec 29 Plans for two types of motorboat submar ne de etroyers designed to hate a speed of at least forty one miles an hour ha e been submitted to tbo navy department Models w 11 be constructed at once at the navy yard here and tested to deter mine whether the engines the designers propose to install will develop power for the required high speed The department recentlv obta ted bids from several boat builders on craft of thw type but there was such w, de var ation in the power proposed for boats of approximately the same size and 1 nes that a test was decided on to determine just how much power would be required The boats are primarily intended to be carried aboard cap ta sh ps two to a battleship or cruiser and to form an n ner protective screen against sub n arines when a fleet or squadron is at anchor or cruising slowly on stat on at sea Prom the experiments with these craft however a standard type of mo to boat for anti submar ne patrol dut along the coasts and off harbor ent ances n times of war probably w II be de el oped CHKHGO Dec 29 James A Pugh member of the board of d rectors of the Motor Boat club of Amer ca and active in the aria rs of western motor boat or gan zations sa d ton ght he cons dered a motorboat snbn ar ne destrojer whollj pract cal and that even a greater speed than forty one n lies an hour could be made by such craft Mr P gh is the owner of the D sturber IV an e ghteen hundred horsepower hydroplane reputed the fastefct craft of its k nd e er bu It S ch a boat sa d Mr Pugh is feas ble in every respect The plans as I understand then contemplate d s placement boats I an hav ng built one of these craft wh ch s e ghty n ne f et long and wh ch w 11 ha e a speed of f f tj m les an hour and a test will be made of the boat n the spr ng These boats can be made to operate at sixty miles an hour and I bel eve it will not be long unt 1 such craft are m service as a part of the naval equipment Mr Pugh sa d he was inforn ed that the proposed submar ne destroyers would not be bu It from plans subm tted re cent y to the navy department by Pugh and W ll am H Thon pson mavor of Ch cago |