The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-30
WORLDS NAVAL NEWS.

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The Japanese battleship Hatsuse, built
at Elswick, made a short trial last
month, averaging over 10 knots during
three hours with about 1000 horsepower.
Portsmouth, at which the most lmr.or-
tant naval depot and dockyard of Great
Britain is located, Is said to be full II
foreign spies, of which many are women.
The recent mysterious disappearance of
two navy signal books has been laid
nrst to Japanese and later to Russian
lady who visits Portsmouth at Intervals
! The British battleship Albion has, aft
er long delay, passed through the first CT
her series of four trials, it being a coal
i consumption trial of thirty hours under
one-fifth power. The ship was down 10
her load draught of 26 IL feet. The en-
gines developed 2,772 horsepower. giving
I a speed of liz knots with coal con-
sumption of FIT pounds per unit of horse
power.
| The water-tube boiler which meets with
NEST favor in the German navy is that
known as the Schulz boiler According 10
recent statement made by Thornycroft,
the noted English builder Of fast torpedo
crafts, his company is joint owner in the
German boiler, which will henceforth be
denominated as the Thornycroft-Schulz
boiler.
| Three armored cru.sers-Vittorio, Eman-
uele III and Regina Ellena-have been
laid down in Italian dockyards. They
are of II, 625 tons, 10000 horsepower and 22
knots speed. Their armament consists of
two Pinch twelve S-inch quick firers
twelve 3-pounders and two submerged
torpedo tubes. The armor belt and tur-
rets will be 10 inches, the bulkheads s
inches and the S-inch gun protection S
inches. The normal coal supply Is 100
tons and the bunker capacity is 1000
tons.
The British cruiser Diadem, of 1880
tons and 1850 horsepower, was boarded
last month by the Parliament Boiler
Committee and taken to sea for thor
ough test under service conditions. The
trial was for twenty-four consecutive
hours, during which the speed averaged
Is knots, which was considered satlsfac-
tory. The initial trial of eight hours,
made during the summer of 1898, gave
1882 horsepower and O.65-knot speed,
but the ship was light by about one
foot
The latest naval program of Italy is
to expend 3S9, 0O0, 600 Ira (about SIT 500, 00U)
between 19O1-1912 upon the building of
new and the reconstruction of old ships.
The expenditure is to be distributed as
follows:
Nineteen hundred and one to 1904, $780,
COG, 600 for work in hand, five armorcladS
of 10000 tons, each one to cost s., 200, coo;
Hilary vessels and reconstruction of the
Italia and Lepanto, built twenty years
ago.
i London Chronicle special gives a re-
sumo of the Russian and Japanese naval
forces and sums it up that ship for ship
the former is inferior. In the event of a
fight and defeat the Russian officers are
said to have asserted that they would
blow their ships up rather than to fall in
the hands of the Japanese, as the Rus
sian crews believe they would be tortur-
ed by the Japs. AS for the Japanese, they
have a standing order for naval battles
to the effect that if any of their ships
hoist the white flag her consorts are to
sink her. With such a mutual hatred a
sea fight would be sure to be not alone
to a dead finish, but also furnish valuable
lessons as to the practical utility of many
contrivances yet unsatisfactory test
ed.
The Novik, Russian cruiser recently
launched at Elbing, Germany, is a re-
, markable vessel in that she is really a
large torpedo-boat destroyer. The growth
of this type of war vessel, beginning
with the torpedo-boat Lightning in 1877,
of q tons, AGO horsepower and 10 knots
speed, has Increased until the larger boats
denominated torpedo-boat destroyers have
a reached $50 tons, 5000 horsepower and g.
knots. Now Russia comes with boat OF
horsepower and speed of % knots. The
Novik is 361 feet in length, 50 feet inches
beam and 10 feet draught, which makes
her displacement coethcient-as fine as Al
l.. B. D. She has two submerged torpedo
tubes on each side and one in the bow
and stern. The battery consists of SIX
4-7-inch quick-fring. eight 3-pounders anc
two Maxims. The coming tower is OF
three-inch Krupp steel. and the protect
i've deck, also of krupp steel, is two
inches thick.
The triple-screw system appears tc
as no vessels have been built since the
Columbia and Minneapolis in 1929. None
of the five batueships. six armored cruz
sers and three protected cruisers are tC
be fitted with triple screws and while M
. reason has been published for this set
back to Mr.. Melville's pet hobby, it is tt
be assumed that the increase in weigh
and space and the additional engine room
force overcome the advantage which tbs
system is claimed to possess. On tbs
other hand, France, Germany and Russis
are favorable toward triple screws, anC
IN the first named navy eight battleships
sixteen armored cruisers and three pro
tected cruisers are either built or unde
construction with three screws Russis
has two battleships and three armore;
cruisers of that class and Germany N.
six battleships. three armored cruisers
and six protected cruisers thus fitted. y
the latter two are of only $3.50 tons dis
placement, whereas the American cruis
ers are 1850 tons.