Show FASTEST IN THE WORLD proud record held by anted un ted states battle hip kearsarge with a great wave lender under its bow and a black cloud of smoke pouring from its two funnels the battleship Lear kearsarge sarge steamed into the harbor at bar harbor me ale july ending the most remarkable passage ever made across the ocean by a battleship and establishing a record from eng land to this country for that class of ship leaving the needles at 1 2 20 p m july 17 the hear kearsarge sarge arrived at mount desert rock july 26 at 12 30 p in covering the d stance of aly less than 3 in les in nine lays four and one quarter hours bour when the dit dif ference in time is tal en nto cons d aeration th s performance make the kear sarge a worthy combee of the oregon which with tood the hardest test to which such a vessel ever was ab ejected on its world famias trip of 14 miles from san I 1 ranc aco co to santiago the trip of the kearsarge has aced that a ai sh p of its class can maintain an average speed of over thirteen thi iteen knots on a long voyage without ditl aut injury to ts machinery that its coal carrying capacity is ad equate for a trip of 4 in les under full spee I 1 that in time of w war ar ships of this class can cross the ocean and engage an enemy at once and that the kearsarge Kear sarg is on of the most per feet sh ps in the world and fully equal to any emergency I 1 do not know that there is a great deal to say sa d capt hemphill we tte bad had a good trip but I 1 can im agane circumstances under which we might better it considerably in fact but for a few untoward happenings we would have come across under nine days As it Is we are about tour four and a quarter hours over nine days our orders told us to go from the needles to mount desert rock under natural draft we had fair weather most of the way but we en countered one gale about a fifty mile gale and also some trouble from fog and icebergs we were obliged to slow down considerably on account of the latter and one day averaged only about ten I 1 nots bots we also lost a trifle of time in p eking up the rock the officers and men have all done their full duty and worked with a will they are considerably tired but II 11 they had the orders they would cheerfully steam back again the kearsarge Kear arge is in excellent con d ton t on save that it is dirty as we took on a of coal on the superstructure deck and we have traces of that with us we arrived juat just about the time I 1 anticipated and so far as everything but coal is con berned could gp back just as well and rapidly we had 1640 1 tons of coal when we left england and now have tons tong in the bunkers this would be enough to last four days under economical steam the trip at this time of the year could be made much more rapidly if we were going from mount desert rock to the needles rather than the other way as we en countered head winds head currents and head seas capt hemphill said that it Is fin pos ble to give the exact figures of the several days runs as they must go first to the department dep artmen ti As a matter of fact have not the data for the exact figures as yet he said we have aen ben up the last three days and nights practically all the time and have not spent uch time making estimates in rau round nd numbers we have covered 2 miles in nine days tour four and a quart teru erg w w hours with this for a starter it Is seen that the kearsarge on the trip across has logged on an average of 13 19 16 knots an hour capt hemphill stated that the best days day a run averaged avera d about 15 knots while the sl ovit waa was 10 knots this was on the aa that the proximity of icebergs with speed during the entire trip commander abraham P zane the chief engineer scarcely left the engine room ong jonal enough to sleep no small credit is due to william P pratt ie afe chief navigator under whose care the kearsarge hardly deviated a hair froly from the exact course in the trip from the cedles in going across the ocean to pate in the naval display at kiel the battleship kearsarge Kear arge made the best speed for the distance ever made by a battleship the route from new york to the needles 3 milas was trav eased without a stop for any cause at t an average speed ot of 12 62 knots an hour 14 to 15 knots an hour be ingre corded for the final two days capt joseph N hemphill the commanding officer has had experience in speed ing ng ships he commanded the buffs io 0 o when it established the thirty nine day ay record from manila |