Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-08-26
A GREAT WARsH|P RACE
British Warship Indomitable Estab-
fishes Record For Swiftness.
A Naval Wonder.

"A naval wonder.
The following article is taken from
the Weekly Scotsman, published al
Edinburgh, Scotland:
His Majesty's ship Indomitable, in
which His Royal Highness the Prince
of Wales has returned from Quebec,
reached Cowes at $40 o'clock on Mon
day, thus establishing an ocean record
for men-of-war The feat is all the
more remarkable because the vessels
machinery is new, and as she was
commissioned only a short time be-
fore she left England her engineers
and their staff were not familiar with
her idiosyncrasies. The Indomitable
has more than realized all eXpecta-
tons. Excepting the Dreadnought,
there is no battleship in the world as
heavily armed as the Indomitable, and
in no fleet in the world is there any
vessel longer than a torpedo boat
destroyer which approaches her in
speed. She is combination of the
qualities of the fastest mercantile
ocean liners, such as the Lusitania
and the Mauretania, and the Dread
nought, while she is more heavily ar
incurred than the battleships of the
Royal Sovereign class, which little
over ten years ago were regarded with
special pride on account of the COM
pleteness of their protection.
She has a belt of Krupp cemented
armour seven inches thick amidships,
and carries no fewer than eight 12-
inch guns of new and most powerful
type. These guns are so ingeniously
mounted that they can all be brought
to bear on either broadside. Each of
these guns weighs IS tons, and fires
projectile of $50 pounds with an in
itial velocity of 1900 feet a second.
At 800 yards the shell can make a
hole through % inches of wrought
iron, and at range of nearly three
miles could penetrate II IL inches of
iron. These eight guns are carried in
four turrets, protected with 10 inches
of armour These huge weapons are
controlled electrically, and are work
ed with the greatest possible swift
nasc eaca and ACCURACY
The Indomitable is the costliest
ship yet built for any navy, having
cost nearly two millions.
Owing to the lateness of the hour,
there was DO demonstration as the
vessel passed to her anchorage. From
nine o'clock the Royal yacht and the
Agamemnon had been making signals
REORGANIZATION to the Indomitahle
On her exceeurugIy TIne
The vessel crossed the Atlantic at al,
average speed of over twenty-five
knots, which constitutes an easy rec
ord for vessel of her class.
The record to be lowered was that |
Of the armoured cruiser Drake, which |
crossed at just under nineteen knots, |
with Prince Louis of Battenberg's
flag flying at the main.
Land to Land In Three Days.
The following shows the speed of |
he Indomitable compared with the
"a sfect 1ipprS afloot.
Distance Average Time /
Knots Hour OH M
ndomitable ...16S4 25.13 2 10 OIL
Iusitania 1891 25.O1 4 10 Sc
Mauritania ..2S9O 24S6 20 Is
The following is a comparison of
he vessels in size and engine power:
Indomitable - Length, $50 feet;
,readth. rs IL feet; displacement, IT,
$50 tons; horsepower, 41,00O; en-
lines, sc. turbine.
Lusitania and Northumberland
80 feet; breadth, So feet; displace-
nent, $4,000 tons; horsepower, TO-
100: engines, sc. turbine.
The First Lord of the Admiralty,
eplying to a written question by Mr.
3ellairs as to what puractical pur-
'oses we're served by the engines of
he Indomitable being subjected to a
train of racing at full speed across
he Atlantic, says: THE practical pur-
lose served was that of an endurance
est at high speed"
A Curious Story.
The few who were privileged to go
N board and learn something of an
cean race against time in which the
Prince himself took part (writes al
at Cowes), became fas-
mated with many of the details of a
oyage in which British warship h
wept across the seas at a greater
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