The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1872-12-14
- NE FAR snip DEYAST4TI TI0S.


- fHE var snip DEFAST4TI0S.
From the London Daily Telegraph.
That the Devastation is success, so
far as she has been tried, is now ad-
mitted. The ponderous monster. which
squats upon the astonished waters with
a dead weight OF 10000 tons, takes any
ordinary waves with stoid Indifference,
whether she receives them on end OF
upon bow, beam or quarter. The pro-
digious hill of foam which her stem
piles up when under weigh washes, as
was expected, clean over her forward
deck, and she is often submerged aft i;
but her massive mid-section rides quiet
" enough, and those on board her,
when anchored in the rolling tide-way
at spit-head, say that she was =" steadier
than the houses ashore" She turns
with great readiness in a small circle,
and her speed, as proved in six trial
along the measured mile, Is not only
equal to the promise of her designers,
but exceeds expectation. The mighty
engines driving Ais island of iron with
an indicated power of 5000 horses,
with seventy-seyen revolutions to the
miINte, got fifteen knots and half out
of Me ship, and her mean rateNat full
steam Is thirteen knots and three-quar-
ters Here, Therefore, is craft which
is vulnerable only to a very few guns,
has the swiftnessof q mail packet, and
the NOTWITHSTANDING to her twin
screws-of tug while she could utll-
ize these qualities to hurl upon the
sides of an opponent the awful force of
all her 10, 600 tons moving with the We
locity of a spear. On board this re-
knarkably man-of-war there are no less
snan thirty-four distinct and separate
engines, and, indeed, the value which
shetepresents is as serious as her fight
ing cay What remains to be
learnedV< e behavior of the ugly
giasJt in real Biscay gale; and whether
or no the cul-de-sac which she carries
at will or Will not prove a mistake IN a
sheavy following sea- With stability as
sured to 55 degrees, with no top gear to
set her over, and with decks which can
be hermetically sealed, she would be
safe enough /; but whenever she does
roll or pitch or scud, the rivits and fit
tings in her huge body will be shrewd-
" tried. Except the Russian. monitor
Peter the Great, nothing floating could
resist or even challenge such n vessel.
at once so strong and swift. The tor
pc 20, No doubt, may be so developed as
toNnake the Devastation, and all her
terrible sisters, impotent against AIDE
Tended coast. On the high seas ut pre-
sent she has no superior, though we
suppose the day Will come when even
this amazing construction will be as
obsolete as the three-deckers of Nelson.
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