The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-24
!, CT It's Cd; by Kerr, Clifford
,ior to arrival.
The Worlds Naval News.

D., e1 lis Sd; by Kerr Clifford & Co.
Prior to arrival.
The Worlds Naval News.
The Kangaroo. torpedo-boat de-
stroyer, is the twelfth thirty-knot YES
sci built by Palmer for the British
navy Her three-hour trial last
month resulted in ali average speed
of 1874 knots, the engines developing
SAT- horsepower, with 379.S5 revolu-
tons and an air pressure OF z.S inches.
The British battleship Implacable re-
turned March Is from her thirty-hour
trial at sea under 12,000 horsepower.
With 260 pounds of steam in the boil
averaged 1857, giving speed of 1871
knots. The coal consumption was 1.S5
pounds per unit of horsepower.
The Italian armored cruiser VareSe,
built by Orlando Brothers, Livorno,
has passed successful trials. The six
hours trial under natural draught,
gave 9,479 horsepower, and a mean
speed of 1886 knots. Under forced
draught, four hours, the horsepower
averaged SS5 and the speed 20. OF
knots. The Varese is of 7,400 tons and
fitted with Belleville boilers.
Forty-nine ships in the British navy
are fitted with Belleville boilers; six
teen vessels, chiefly armored, were al
so to have these boilers, but the recent
report by a Parliamentary committee
against the further use of the Belle
vile will necessitate change in the
ships under construction. The Admiral
ty pays a royalty of 1 shilling ~
pence (39 centS) per square foot OF
heating surface, which amounts to
about s750,000 between December, 1896,
and up to the present time.
A small protected cruiser named
No., ,aI1o 1O@IR
for the Austrian navy. She is a sister
vessel to the Zenta and Aspern, and
has a displacement. of only 400 tons.
The length is 301 feet, breadth 80 feet 6
inches, draught IA feet inches. The
twin screw engines are of 5000 horse
power intended to give speed of 20. 5
knots. The ship has protective deck,
and the armament consists OF ten At
inch rapid firerS, twelve 3-pounderS,
and two above-water torpedo tubes.
The coal supply is sufficient for $500
miles at speed of twelve knots, and
the ship. being intended for foreign
service, has the hull wood-sheathed
and coppered.
Details of dimensions and armament
of the Victor Emanuel. a battIeship,
shows a departure from prior arma-
ments and speeds in the italian navy.
Her dimensions are: Length, 435 feet;
breadth, 1875 feet; draught 25.05 feet;
will be composed of two 12-inch, tweIve
S-inch quick firers, twelve 14-pounders,
twelve 3-pounders, and four submerg-
ed torpedo tubes. The arTnor will be
made in Italy under the TERM process,
and will be 10 inches to inches for
the belt; deck, inches; bulkhead and
barbettes, inches; side, 6 inches; con-
ming tower, 10 inches. The engines,
of 10000 horsepower, are calculated to
give speed of % knots, and the
be observed that 6-inch guns have been
discarded, making the battery serve
for armor smashing and gun crew de-
stroying without intermediary 6-inch
gun, which is scarcely useful against
battleship armor, and too ponderous
for decimating less protected gun .po-
sitions, and for which work theS14-
FOUNDER is better adapted.