BRITAIN'S RECORD CRUISER.
H.M.S. INDQIIITABLE'S SPEED OF 28 KNOTS. All battleship and cruiser records have been beaten by . tho new. British armoured cruiser Indomitable. It'is reported that she has obtained 1 n speed of . twenty-eight knots on tho measured milo in' thp Clyde, and as easily having maintained a speed of twentysix and a quarter knots during continuous! steaming in hor trial which are now in progress. Tho Indomitable was built by tho Fairfield Company ut Govan, and is to all older armoured cruisers what the Dreadnought is to all older 'battleships., A speed of twonty-fivo knots was required ' by • the contract conditions, but it has' been understood from tho.first that tho Admiralty expectod: twenty-six or twenty-seven knots of nor. \This expectation has now seemingly been fu'lfillod. Sho : has turbiiio engines of the Parsons type, and carries eight 12-in. guns, so. arranged that all can fire 011 either broadsido, Her armour is 7 to Bin. thick. Sbn la onn of Vcr&e isiistcr ships, the others Jiniiug tho Invincible uid MaxiM^
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 223, 13 June 1908, Page 10
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170BRITAIN'S RECORD CRUISER. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 223, 13 June 1908, Page 10
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