The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-17
NEWS OF FOREIGN NAvIEs.

Tho German second class battleshlp
Ravern of 74A tons. built at kiel In l9iS'
has been thoroughly refftted, ana VIII
new boilers of the Durr type maue II
knots on trial. With the old boilers the
highest speed reached was only IA kIlote'
The three Brazilian torpedo cruisers
rr1,Inv Timbera and Tanrayo, each OF 1VoV
tons, which have just been completed at
Kiel, Germany, will receive theH pe.
teries from Elswick. Inc Brazin1aIls nc
never had. high opinion OF hrupp o'o-
nance.
The machinery of the Russian battle
..i1 which was built in England has
finaIIv been accepted. The ship passed
through her twelve hours trial trip last
month and although the weather was
very rough the engines developed mean
of IL 400 horsepower, 500 in excess OF the
contract.
italy has taken warning from the bat
tie off Santiago and the use or Weoo on
board ships will be almost entlrely als-
pensed with.
The Russian Minister of Marine con-
templates an exhibition in 1900 showing
the progress of warship building curing
the century now closing.
The NAVY League Of London submitted
an offer TO the British Admiralty tender
ing a prize of 20 guineas to the snip
which during the next six months should
make the best practice in prize hr1ng-
The admiralty, through its secretary
very CURLY replied that II was not pre-
pared to accept the offer.
The Austrian torpedo boat Rqa- built
by Yarrow, and very similar to the viper
has nassed through a successful trial,
making "a 265 knots with $50 revolutions
and $50 pounds of steam. The boat Is 152
feet 6 inches in length and is feet
inches in breadth, and has only one
screw The coal capacity is sufficient for
1900 knots at 10 knots speed. The viper
made q. 7S6 knots on trial, but carried
load of only &c tons, while the Boa carried
a load of "A tons.
The new Notifications of Port Arthur
are being built with great dispatch, and
inward of 5000 workmen are employed.
There are to be three forts, which are
calculated to make the naval station safe
from any attack by land or sea- Fort No.
l will be armed with eight 12-inch Garrett
guns, which will have a range of thir-
teen miles This fort will also contain
sixteen 6-inch quick-frers, mounted in
steel classmates of Is inches thickness in
front and inches on the sides and roof.
Fort No will mount eleven 12-inch and
twenty-eight 6-inch guns in classmates.
Attached to these forts will be two tor
pedo stations to each, with three 18-inch
tubes. Fort NO. 5 mounts Twelve 1z-lnCn
and fifty-two 6-inch guns, and contains
barracks for $500 infantry and artillery
men.
In the British dockyard the Government
compensateS employees who get hurt
while in the performance of duty. The
rate ranges from 2460 to $50 Of the mans
earnings, the highest being paid to such
as are permanently disabled, and the
lowest rate to those slightly hurt. In ad-
dition the workman receives the pension
to which he may be entitled from his
length of service, the highest sum total
being limited to $500 q year, and in the
event of death through accident the rela-
tives or dependents Of the deceased re-
ceive q round sum in pension and hurt
money This is better treatment than the
employees in United States navy yards re-
ceiye. The unfortunate victim is bundled
off the yard and if the accident occurred
during the forenoon he receives only one
half a days pay. About ten years ago
Captain Coghlan, then at Mare Island,
came near getting into difficulty because
he forgot ~ to dock the pay OF two Ia
borers who were seriously injured while
docking a French ship-of-war. Two days
after the men had been sent over to Val
lejo on stretchers the eagle eye of an
uItra-honest official discovered that the
disabled men were still carried on the
muster roll, and Captain Coghlan received
severe reprimand for his forgetfulness.