Show 4 A CRACK RACK BRI BRITISH I H SHIP SHIP I V f A bloody l B has 5 sent cut 1 us tl the c overseas 0 i of ot the London Daily Mail and with it a al alf f e peculiarly ci ILin letter in which he lie sa says s 's k hI This on n page is going some Saw in incurrent n nc c current issue of Te Leslie's so Weekly that the fastest American war vessel is lEi the torpedo destroyer J Jouett t with ith a speed of knots knotH an hour which i is LS not fast faRt for a n torpedo destroyer as there are alC I I o over cr forty oi ot those in iii the thc royal 1 navy doing 37 knots h tsi but but IB is exceptionally fast sp spewed d for fOl a monster ship of or lo c to to- tons There is jJ ui o far in Uncle Sams Sam's s 's na navy of ol OOOO to tons s or l r more able to too do o 23 3 lino knots s. s Leslie's arc not posted on naval Dayal matters as some time HgO ago they referred to some fast torpedo destroyers able to todo I do 19 do 32 knots as the thc fastest in ill the world whereas I England had bad been building boat bont de destroyers tro for for n na r do i a ablo to 35 5 knots i. i t VY Ve i e arc arc very glad to see ee that letter AVe We do o. o w v th that t. t any one has ever discounted British ships hips She hie Ilas a little reputation as a ship shipbuilder builder now no for at least since the Elizabethan age nod anti if she ever goes into a fight with Avith a real po power er which yh Gh she ha lia avoided a for sonic some forty years rears or op more n ole we C will HI all an feel fecI a a comfort in the thought that hat if she should happen to get got worsted h her r ships ar are so fast that thai thc they can get ct awn away awny without serious damage I 4 The Phe paper referred to tells n us that the speed j records for large ships have been lowered by b- the time t battle batHe Princess Royal Roal which on S Saturday t rn et returned d to c port on the completion corn com pt ton of o- o obet her bet experimental trials She has at at- t tt t fain i i t i speed W cd of 3 1 1 M nearly e lly foi folt t miles aiT Jf tJ in ill Ulrica constitutes nour Ul practice a worlds world's I r record cord coid Since undergoing her official full power trials daIs in which she attained a speed o of knots she has hns bc been n docked and fitted with a new type of three bladed propeller To 10 test these propellers she made six sk runs quarter at power and six at full power on the measured milo mile off Polperro on the time Cornish coast The rhe strongest precautions have been taken to prevent the thc details of these trials from being divulged but there is every reason reason rea rca son sou to believe that she attained the magnificent speed of 34 knots She will now be docked to have her machinery opened out ont Then the paper papel gives the comparative speed and tonnage of the Princess Ro Royal floal al and the German Ger Ocr man n ship Goeben as 18 follows Tonnage Broadside Knots Knot Princess Royal 34 7 34 Goeben e. e Ie We congratulate the admiralty on the DeWI new DeW I ship Three or four fOUl years ears ago Great Britain built a cruiser of extraordinary speed and in it brought the prince of Wales over oyer to the Quebec tion It was was' reported that she was the fastest cruiser of the world but that another cruiser had been laid down that was to exceed her in speed We read a year later that the fast cruiser had bad been discarded as so full of faults as to make her hera a useless if n not t unsafe ship for tho the navy We Ve hope it will not bo be so ao with the Princess Royal be because ause we never read of a magnificent ship launched by any country that we Ye are not glad and the country that has the enterprise to build great ships has our perpetual admiration We only know in the old days the United States built swifter and far more beautiful ships than ever had been turned out by a British ship yard ald And we have hopes that b by and by when a few newspaper men who it seems are under the pay of British ship owners shall have bave died and when the congress shall be filled with enlightened and practical men that there will be a restoration of the American meric n merchant marine a decided advance advance ad ad- vance in her war wai- ships and that she will be then I as she was of old the owner and possessor of the very veri swiftest and most beautiful ships on all the oceans |