BRITISH CRUISER BEATS WORLD'S RECORD.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1589, 5 November 1912, Page 7

BRITISH CRUISER BEATS WORLD'S RECORD.

— 9 PEINCESS ROYAL'S 34 KNOTS AN . HOUR. All speed records for largo ships harfl ..- been lowered by tlie iieAv :.. :i ; tiruiser Princess, Royal,: which on Septem- . --'-v.. Tier 1!1 returned to Dovonport on the completion of her experimental- trials. She ■' attained a spoedvof : 34. KnotisMor .39'. miles - j ■ aii hour), which constitutes a. worlds . ; record. , „ ■ ■ v jsmce; unnerpoinf! her:official full-power ;-. .■ ■trials* iii which slie-. attained sp?ed of -. ■.- j ' 32.7 knots, slic Has been docked 1 ard fitted with a new.:type'of-thre^bladcd.. ; propeller. To test these propellers,;' she mado six runs at three-quarter power . ' and six at fill. power on the measured : f--j ' mile off Pol'perro, on the Cornish coast. ; -' .' The strictest precautions liave been taken ■ to : prevent the details, of? ■' these 1 .trials.'' fror.i being divulged, ■but there is Rood ... .. reason to believe tlisit sho attained tlio , magniii'cent .speed of 3-i knots. Sho/will. ' now bo docked .to have/her. machinery.-. opened' out. . , ■. Tho Princess Royal compares, as ~fol- ■ . lows with the newest of tho German battlecruisers, which ran her trials in August:. Broadside ..Tonnage.-Lb.: KnfltS( _.. Prineer l Koyal : ' ... .28,350 10,210. M Goffer:" 22,635 ' 8,300 " 29,4 It ««;, claimed flint, during.;her tiials the Goeben reached 32. knots, Jiut..that ; , . speed was ■ not coiitmubuslr'maitfaineth:. The second ship in point of spoed.-.is/ the Princess Royal's sister, the Lion, which t has done 31 knots. V ' man battle-cruisers :Hol.tko with i».7 knots,'. Goeben, with 29:4, and \on Mf Taßn with'.3B,l. ■ .....'. : .