The sun., 1890-05-03
THE SWIFT LITTLE CUSHING.
FAST TIME Made BY UNCLE sAM'S
NEW TORPEDO BOAE
A lSs-foOt CrnU thnt Can Make - I.9
Knots m Hour all Day LOnG sHd FamP
Her Weight in Water In Ten Minutes.


| Her Weight in Water In Ten haIuutcs
The United States Government torpedo
boat Cushing broke the record on Thursday
| from Newport to New York. making the run in
| hours and 81 minutes. thus breaking the time
| OF the steam yacht Now Then made nearly
| three years ago by seven minutes She did
thisin the face OF a head wind and q choppy
sea- and in spite Of tho fact that her crew H.
| composed entirely Of green men. The Now
Then when she made her famous record on
July H. 1887, had everything In her favor. She
awaited a clear day when the wind was in her
favor. and she started at IL o'clock In the
morning 80 as to take advantage OF the tide.
The Cushing did not leave Fort Adams, Now
port until 143 Thursday afternoon. II had
been the intention TO start at II in tho morn
ing. but there was some delay in getting up
steam. As soon as she got out into tho open
sen q stin breeze set her to dancing upon the
choppy waves, and for two hours she had both
waves and wind against her After passing
New London II became a little calmer Another
remarkable is that she burned hard coal. A
boat that goes In for recordu uhreaking carries
soft coal: In the case OF the Gushing a differ.
enGe in the Kind Of coal Is estimated at one
and one. half knots per hour. With soft coal
ad and under favorable circumstances OF wind
Gushing. estimates that he could reduce the
record record by . half hour at least;
different points along The run: Fort Adams, |
fGnr @ 4 si imnnteYs Ysw Pont Judith 2lss Watch
7:48a: Twenty fourth street, $40 At twenty:
fourth street sho slowed down. Her average
boat; she 81, was built BY the Hefrescholf Manu-:
launched only about two months ago.
anG ahe contractors con- hIst gave her 2 trial.
tested by (IOyarnmant Of1lCara On tho
tract called for speed oftwepty-two knots an
developed, q speed OF twenty-two aud half
knots PER hour. On April 22 she was accepted
Rae Winslow was placed in command, Sne
hos hG complement Of sixteen men and four
acceptance By the government she has been cen
cruising about IN NarraGansett Bay Gettipg
heGt hhep crew rpd into eondtiSn ma On Wednssdey she
iio from Newport to Bristol, about 12Ji miles, IL
go minutes and Is seconds. IN average Of
was her first / iong r run. " She ue W was J tied up
81. Ssll day Yesterday n Brooklyn Navy Yard.
pose in putting in hero was to take on coal
She will leave brooklyn at 10 o'clock this morn
ns and S HSe i easy o n the trip to Ws9h.
teen knots per hour Arrived there she will
await vat orders c from the Secretary OF the Navy:
depth from the crown OF the deck amidships
s Hsr
loaded with ten tons Of coal amounted to lit
with which sh . could steam 1000 miles
at ten knots, per hour or 600 knots when going
St st iull speed Economy OF space wae on, Of
builders. Every cubic loot is utilized. She
h has eleven compArtmcnt. and ten water-tight
IN s are SunfsSs only y sSs
Of her engines. Her only other protection e
her pumping machinery. She can pump 100
honr o apI I"P her IN seven w,q m $40 tons Per
minutes. II she should have shot hole nino
inches in diameter through her engine room
compartment. her pumning capacity would !
When equipped. she will carry a torpedo tube I
and viii thus bus be eH able toiaSnch % three torpedosS
ut once. She will carry, hye rapid-flre one |
kShe is built with twin screws and quadrnple ,
expansion engines. There are more than three
miles OF tubcs in her boiler and more than one
mile IN hor condenser. II is estimated that on |
her official trial trip she developed more than
] 200 horse power The diameter Of her turn ,
PEELED astern as well as forward. and has made
over seNenicen miles an hour while gQinR In ,
which renders her almost invisible ct Q dis
The Cushing is one of the strongest boats
eyer built. Her construction was under tho
named after Liout Gushing OF the navy. who
Il would not hesitate 10 say" remarked
Lieut.. Wins low last evening. that the Cush-
ing. under favorable conditions could run 22K
knots, per hour all day long, l have seen tho
vessel make "a 32-lOO knots which is eQuiva-
lent TO Is miles. and then she was
going under steam pressure OF only
lD pounds, which is pounds less
Ihan she was designed TO carry In her
high-pTessure cylinder. Her boiler has been
es,ed a. the rave of $40 rounds 10 the square
inch. She ought TO be able TO make the dis
lance between New York and AeWiort at the
FHtB oil II knots Ig lDuI with hard coal and
l2s knots with hot coal. We expect great
Lings Of her when her crow gets well trained"