The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-08-07

Petropalowsk, turret-ship of 1O.s6O tons.
the armored cruiser Admiral Nachimon
If S524 tons. and Gilyak, gun-vessel. Just
connIeted of 963 tons, besides nine tor
nedo-boats. now in course of construction
at St Petersburg.
The steam trials of the armored cruiser
.eor,o of 975O tons, built at Elswick for
the Jananese navy, gave the following re-
suits. Under six hours natural draught,
70 000 horsepo- er and 20.37 knots; under
forced draught over the measured mile,
1000 horsepower and % knots, or one-hat
knot in excess of contract
Serious defects have been discovered in
the engine frames of three new FrehcIl
Sims namely the turret-ship Bouvet OF
- 200 ions launched in 1895, and the Cali
loo and Tayoisier, cruisers OF z5It tons,
launched in 1896. The defects, owing to
had metal are such that II Will De lIhpos-
sible to make repairs, ana as coilSe-
ouence the ships cannot be driven at thelr
intended high speed. which was seventeen
and a half knots for the BouFet anu
twenty knots for the cruisers
The accident to the British torpedo-boat
DESTROYER BulIfinch on July IL, Whlch re
suited in the death of eight ana injuries
m three men. was caused by the break
ing of a piston rod The ROD was lorced
through the bottom or the cynnoer' cauS-
ing a terrific explosion, and portions OF
the machinery were forced through the
bottom of the vessel, making leaks which
were with difficulty controlled by the
punps This is the second accloent To
this vessel as a couple of months ago hef
balance weights gave way during pre-
Iiminary trial and badly disabled the
machinery, but fortunately on one was
hurt.
The Guichew. a sheated cruiser of y
tons built in imitation of the Columold
and Minneapolis in the United Sta'es
navy, has proved sad dlsappolhtiheAI
on her trial trip With a horsepower Of
"a 900 a speed of twenty-three knots was
ANTICIPATED. but the trial gave only
twentv-one knots. The French copstruc-
tors propose to reduce the diameter OF the
propeIlers in order to obtain more revo-
lutions, but this is not at all likely to re-
cover a deficiency of speed of two Knots.
In addition it will also be necessary to re-
arrange the disposition of weights, as Ill
the present state both trim and behavior
are faulty The ship, it is alleged, is so
disappointing that so far as possible al
details of this costly blunder are kept
secret The estimated cost OF the
Guichew was s., O59, 725, to which probably
another million must be added to make
the vessel serViceable.
An armored cruiser named Garibaldi
was landed June 20 from the yard or
Ansaldo at Sestri Ponente, Italy. She IS
357 feet in length over all, 343.S feet on the
load water line, 59.7 feet beam, and on
mean draught of 232S feet displaces i4oo
tons The water line belt is 4.92 inches
maximum thickness, tapering to 20 lncheS
at the ends; buIkheads 3.94 inches and
armor above water line one to one and
one-uuarter inch, all Harveyized steel.
The armament consists of one 1O-inch Tor
ward, two S-inch aft, fourteen 6-inch, ten
3-inch and six torpedoes. The engines
are to develop 1850 horsepower, calcu-
lated to give a speed of 20 knots, ana
the normal coal carried is 700 tons, with
a bunker capacity of 1900 tons. Ansaldo
built the Cristobol Colon of the Spanish
navy. destroyed by the American squad
ron off Santiago, July 8, 1895, The Colon
proved herself the speediest ship in the
two squadrons and reached her trial
speed of 1912 knots within one-quarter of
a knot in her efforts to escape.
A brief summary of the British naval
manuevers just ended were as follows:
A British convoy Co of slow ships, the
Calliope and Curacao, escorted by a fast
first-cass cruiser, on passage from HAN
fax to Milford Haven, is ordered to wait
at a certain rendezvous for the arrival
of a protecting squadron, hostile
squadron of fast ships elect Al lying at
Belfast is sent to sea to intercept and
capture the convoy, bringing it into Bel
fast. Fleet a consists of the channel
SQUADRON of eight battleships, three
II OOO-ton cruisers of POS knots speed, ana
sixteen second-class cruisers. besides d
number of torpedO-bOat destroyers sta
toned at Waterford, Kingstown and Bel
fast. After a short period a superior
british squadron CD of slower ships is
sent to protect the convoy Co to a pre-
arranged rendezvous and bring 1t into
Milford. This latter fleet consists OF ten
battleships, four first-class cruisers, SIX
teen second-class cruisers and torpedo
boat destroyer, distributed at Milford
Haven. Holyhead and Lamlash. The
whole of Ireland belongs to the enemy;
England and Wales and islands are Brit
ish territory War was declared on July
90 and terminated August D. The umpires
were Vice Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge,
Rear Admiral John Fellowes and Rear
Admiral Swinton Holland.