Show SPEED OF TORPEDO BOATS depth of water has a great effect upon power baided in operation Opera Uon the recent testa tests of torpedo boats in tho the bay of dantzig Dantz lp germany have resulted la lit the ascertainment of same facts regarding their navigation not hitherto known tho thu particular object of these experts experiments ants was to ascertain aaa ertain the influence if f the depth ct of the water on tho the speed of the boat it ie is stated that up to A speed of twelve knots an appreciable influence waa was observed but from fifteen to twenty knots the unfavorable character of the influence increased in proportion to the diminution of depth in low water about two fathoms deep twice as much power was required of at the engines to got ct the or dd easily obtainable in deep water with an increase of at speed the strange fact was remarked that condl tiona unfavorable to the boata way were no longer apparent in two fathoms but rather at a depth of four or five and better results wore were obtained in shallow water than in twenty fathoms in consequence of these the government naval architect paulus at a recent confer ence of marino marine engineers proposed to petition tho the to allow of the experiments exper lmonte being repeated with considerably larger warships |