The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-04-19
NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES
Great Britain has ninety-eight drst-class
torpedo-boats III commission.

Great Britain has ninety-eight drst-class
torpedo-boats III commission.
Chatham docKyard expended So, 400 900 in
wages during the past fiscal year. For the en-
suing year the wages account has been re-
duced about 100000.
The German naval budget for 1928 pro-
Vloeo ior $40, 720,75O and comprised an addi-
tlon OF forty-six vessels to the navy namely
five sea-going armor-clads. two monitors, two
naroor-oeieEse batteries, ten cruisers, FIVE dis
patch boats and twenty-five torpedo boats.
inc helchstsg, however, did not receive the
kmperor's plan favorably and the appropria-
lions as finally passed exceeded the present
years allowance very slightly.
The Blake. British cruiser of 5000 tons, had
. Iour hours' steam trial on March IS, during
whlcn she averaged 14,5O0 horsepower and
ieZ KNOTS speed by log. Immediately there
AFTER Inc ship entered on her twenty hours
Trial on three-ffths of her natural draught
power and gave an average OF S445 horse
power and 1928 knots speed. The Blake was
built in 1889, and on her trial trip in 1891
Jailed to make the intended speed of % Knots
on 10000 horsepower. The power reached
only l4'4oO under natural draught, the speed
IL IL Knots, and has not been improved upon
until now after her recent refit
ou III at the Thames Iron Works, London, con
Guided her trials March %. On the first day
the snip made four runs over l0-knot course
In the vicinity Of the Downs, and on $50
pounds OF steam developed 10000 horse
power, with 1888 revolutions and speed Of
1913 Knots On the following day the Full
made her full-power forced-draught trials, and
on SIX runs over the 10-knot course averaged
1873 knots speed on IA, 100 horsepower, 152
pounds OF steam and 100 ravOlu tfous Tho
Iowa, battle-ship, United States navy, which
had her trial on April z, is IL ,410 tons, ran
twice over q course OF SO miles and averaged
IL knots, which is one knot faster than her
estimated speed. The Full made exactly her
contract speed.
Detailed accounts of the gun accident on the
Clssoi Velikl, Russian battle-ship, while at
target practice near Cauea on March Il, show
the fr1ghtful results attending accidents to-
modern guns. 1t was in the after turret that
the catastrophe occurred to one of the 12-inch
Canet guns served with charge of 200 pounds
OF powder. The breech screw had not been
screwed up, and as result the breech block,
weighing about 5000 pounds, blew out and
was driven four inches into the turret, while
the covering OF the turret was split in two, one
half going up as high as the maintop, and in
lis fall crushing the forward bridge, killing
seventeen men. OF the ten people in the tur-
ret when the ACCIDENT occurred Jour were
killed outright and more have died since.
Altoget Their thirty-three officers and men were
killed and wounded.
The navy OF Turkey, quite formidable on
paper, is to all appearances even worse than
that of China, for in its preparations for war
with Greece only few of the most antiquated
ships have been placed in commission, and
the ships recently built in England are
with few exceptions evidently in no fighting
condition. Turkeys navy list embraces
eighteen ironclads ranging from. thtrty-three
10 twelve years old and therefore antfquated,
eighteen cruisers thirty-eight to FIVE years
old, twenty-se ven dispatch vessels and zach ts
eleven gunboats and thirty-eight torpedo
boats The feet which left the Bosporus on
March 25 for the Egean Sea consisted of four
battle-ships of ancient build, one armored gun
boat OF 400 TONS built in 1875. two transports
one torpedo gunboat built in 1890. two other
nondescript craft and four frst-class torped o.
boats OF IS tons. The small fleet of Greece
consists of serviceable vessels and makes up
in quality for what they may lack in size and
number