GOOD ADVERTISEMENT FOR UNCLE SAM'S DIET.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 188, 11 August 1925, Page 12

GOOD ADVERTISEMENT FOR UNCLE SAM'S DIET.

offset any slight differences in guns and armour, and even be fatal to the slower ship. The difference in speed also allows the Hood to choose the range at which the battle is fought, which discounts any difference there might be in the range of the loin, and ICin. guns under consideration. It is more than probable that those officers and men of discernment in the Colorado and especially those who have wives and children, would just as soon be watching a game of baseball as meet the Hood in single combat on an average day and in average weather. The Hood could afford to wait until the sun was in a favourable position, and if the\un was not out she could probably choose

ever necessary, and would be much less sluggish when manoeuvring. There is no wish to decry the electric drive, but at the same time the advantages over the geared turbine drive are not so real as they are apparent. There is very little difference in the efficiency between the two types of drive at the two principal speeds- of a warship, presupposing equally good design, but the electric drive introduces an enormous amount of complications, which is additional to the steam plant necessary to drive both types. The electric drive has not been tested in battle, the steam plant has, and the Admiralty is still using it, and so are the Americans in the very latest designs of cruisers.