The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-03-16
SPEED|ES1 IN
THE navy

Washington, March l2.-Officers oI
the navy department are highly elat-
ed over the showing naoe by the Da,-
tlesnip Utah on its recent speed tests
when it lowered all previous speed
records for battleships in the United
States navy In the recent tests near
Providence, Rhode Island, the Utah
made an average speed of % knots
on her four-hour full power trial,
which was one and quarter knots
in excess of her designed speed
The record makes the Utah the
speediest of all American battleships
and wrests the speed laurels from
the Delaware, which in her prelim.
mary four-hour full power trial, made
an average of 21.56 knots. First re-
ports of the final acceptance trials OF
the Utah were received here today
and show in addition to the unex-
pected speed performance that the
ships crew got higher percentages
of speed revolutions and horse pow
er than the contractors. Here is the
table of comparison:
Con- Ships Beat
tractors. Crew. Con.
byp.c.
Av. rev. per min. 1894 1874 40
Speed (knots) ....21.04 22.0 49,
Horsepower =. $1,000 $4,000 1850
Coal burned (tons) III 500 1876
In her trial the Utah burned only
coal, and it is considered fair to as
sumo that had she flushed her coal
with oil, as would be the case in
emergency where added speed was
necessary she would have come
close to demonstrating that she has
the advantages of the widely herald
ed battleship cruisers of the foreign
powers in addition to her added ar
NOR protection and gun power.
Rear Admiral Hutch /. Cone, engl-
neerin-chief of the navy, was elated
when he learned of the splendid per-
Torrance of the Utah today.
The greatest credit belongs to
the organization of that fine ship" he
said; FOR in these days the big bat
tleships are so complicated that
splendid organization is needed in a
case of this kind. Twenty-Five knots
is a splendid record for the ship"
To understand what it means to i'll
crease the speed Of a monster dread
nought of the Utah type from PA to
22 knots, engineer officers call at
tention to the fact that 1000 horse
power was necessary in addition to
the horse power required to send
the vessel along at comfortable
cruising speed of IL to IA knots.
Utah Leads Them All.
Comparison of the Utah's speed
with that of other vessels in the navy
shows that the trial speed of the
Delaware was 2156 knots; the North
Dakota, 21.01; the Georgia, 1926; the
New Jersy. 1918; the Nebraska,
1906; the Virginia and the Rhode
Island, 1901, and all other battle
ships below 10 knots.
There is less than one knots diff,
ference in speed between the battle
ship Utah and any of the armored
cruisers on their trial trips, although
with the armored cruisers, fighting
force and ornaments are sacrificed
to speed
The latest British battleships, the
King George v, the Ajax, the Audici-
Gus and the Centurion, are designed
for speed of 81 knots, are the
Orion, the Conqueror, the Monarch
and the Thunderer.
The British battleship Neptune,
which surprised naval engineers by
her speed record, made 21.S7 knots.
The Vanguard on trial made 20 IL
knots.
The Utah Is of 2l,S25 tons dis
placement and shares with the Flor
ida the distinction of being the new
est and most powerful Of the United
States dreadnoughts.
Her performance as an oil burning
ship surprised the naval engineering
world, since she made her first cruise
cessfully got under way from the
Brooklyn navy yard and drew up to
Der position in the line. when the
fleet was anchored in the Hudson
last November without burning a