The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-13
NEWS OF FOREIGN NAvIEs.

! The Austrian first-class torpedo-boat
Kigyo has been launched. from the Var
! row yard. She is 152 feet 6 inches in
! length and 10 feet inches beam, and is
/ similar in all respects to the Cobra and
| two other boats which have proved I'M
| qualifiedly successful.
The shipwright apprenticeship in the
British dockyards is not likely TO prove
| a success owing to the discrimination
made by the admiralty between ship
wrights and engine-room artificers. The
latter begin with a pay of shillings 6
pence day and ranks with petty officers,
while the shipwright apprentice is al
lowed only shillings and ranks with
stokers.
The new Turbinia of 220 feet length and
$50 tons displacement is in an advanced
stage of construction at Elswick, and 1t is
expected to have her ready for trial by
the middle of April The new Turbinia
has eight propellers on four shafts, in
stead of the original Turbinia's three
shafts and nine propellers and her going
astern'' arrangements are far in advance
of the pioneer boat.
The No 1 dock of the Yokohama Dock
Company is nearly completed and when
the cofferdam has been removed will be
ready for use. 1t is 4S3 feet 7 inches in
length on the blocks, $50 feet inches
from entrance to head, the entrance of
SO feet 6 inches wide at the top and 70
feet INCHES at the bottom. At spring tide
there is rs feet 10 inches of water over the
blocks and at low water q feet inches.
The active list of the line officers in the
German navy, which has recently been
increased, now consists of the following
number in each grade corresponding to
those in the United States navy: One
aIY I've RI
admirals, sixty captains, one hundred and
thfrty-one commanders, two hundred and
thirty-four lieutenant commanders, three
hundred and eighty-two lieutenants and
two hundred and seventy-four lieutenants
of the junior grade.
A fourth-class cruiser named Gazelle is
being built at the Germania yard
(Krupp's), Kiel, for the German navy Two
similar ships have been contracted for
one at the Germania yard and the other
at the Weser yard, Bremen. These yes
sells will have unusually fine lines, for,
with a length of 32S feet, 9S feet inches
beam and a draught of 10 feet inches
they will displace only 2S0S tons The en-
gines are to develop 5000 horsepower and
give a speed of 1875 knots Their arma-
ment consists of 10 4.1-inch quick-firing
guns, IA 11s-pounders and machine guns,
They are to be completed in two and a
.OJ n
at the rate of 1896 so per ton displacement.
Of the twelve ships in the British navy
which passed through their steam trials
last year, only one-the battle-ship Illus
trious-was fitted with cylindrical boilers
The others had water-tube boilers Seven
of the large cruisers had Bellevue boilers
in which the coal consumption. ranged
from ia pounds per unit of horsepower
to as low as 1.55 pounds In the four
smaller cruisers of the Pelorus class as
many types of other water-tube boilers
were used, and While they all developed
the contract power, there was ouite
difference in the coal consumption of tho
Tour types. The Blechynden used 2.46
pounds, the Thornycroft "a the Reed
boiler L96 and in that fitted In the cr,,isar
built by Earles the consumption was 81
pounds
Ihree court-martials were held last
month on British naval officers with 60;
Gus results TO the accused parties. lien.
.eiiaiit u W. Mason of the Galatea was
oiiai eeo with pelng absent without leave
ana, making no defense, was sentenced =,
| ior1elt one years seniority and 10 he AZ
missed from his ship Fleet Engineer
monk, also of the Galatea. was cba,.,.N,s
with having falsitied the wine accounts -
the wardroom. He admitted ha,,irsr 10 -. -
ettols' put denied intention of fraud trbe
court however, found him guilty
o 81 ag ana adjudged him to be deprived
- al seniority as fleet engineer ana ~
De dismissed his ship. Ijenta,,o, stiio 10
euartermaster w r. Wider of The % ana at
a. =. was found guilty on two charges - y:
seahoaious conduct unbecomins on 20 "a u
ana gentleman and was cashiered 0t fne.-,
the service. from
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Thames Iron Works. Iondon at the
brltish navy will be 4O5 feet in 1ao or the
= ,ee edo . inches beam and dlsplaca IN "a, %
.a'VvV, IONS on mean draught of % Sa".
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