FASTEST WARSHIP.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 46, 18 November 1907, Page 7

FASTEST WARSHIP.

KURTY-FOUR AND A QUARTER KNOTS WC TEUSQEAPH—PRESS' ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. ■ "•;;'; (Roc, Nov': 17, 4.9 p.m.) November 16. . The destroyer Mohawk avoragod 34J knots in a steam trial lasting six hours in the North Sea.- •'< ':•

■ It was recently stated that the German Navy had won for itself tho distinction of possessing toe fastest warship in tho world in tho now turbine-engincd torpedo-boat destroyer G 137. A. week or two before the announcement the British destroyer.Cossack, built by Mossrs. Cammell, Laird, and Co., and designed for a speed of 33 knots, achieved a 6peod of half a knot ,m excess of. the contract on her trial runs, which gave, the blue riband of the sea to the British. Navy. The iGerman destroyor, however',' exceeded this by nearly half a knot. It'was built at Krupp's yard at Kiel, and designed ..for a speed of 30 knots only, but it succeeded ,on'its trials, which wero run last week, in maintninng a' speed of 33.9 knots, with a full load on board.' This in equivalent to nearly thirty-nine miles an hour. The British deßtroj'ejs viper. : and Cobra each did. better than this, making more than 37 and 36 knots respectively; but they wero both lost at sea shortly after they were built. It whs stated a short time ago that Great Britain was building a' destroyer, the ,Swift, which was expected to nttain.a speed of 36 knots on its trials, but while thii is foiir knots bettor than the vessels of previous British programmes, it is only two in advance of G 137. Germany is at present building twenty-two destroyers to Britain's thirteen.