SUCCESSFUL SUBMARINE TRIP.
A LONG RUN. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. NEW YORE, llth July. Tb.6 submarine Salmon, with a crew of twenty men,, made a (successful voyage from Quincy, Florida, to the Bermuda Islands, whioh lie about 600 miles off the American coast. The Salmon maintained' a epeed of about eight knots an hour. [The Salmon, completed' last December is one of three submarines (the other two being, the Grayling and the Narwhal) wJiich are an advance on their predecessors. They are 135 feet long-, ' the firmament consists of four torpedo tubes, the surface displacement is 278 tons, and when submerged the tonnage is 340 'tons. It was expected that a speed of 12 to 13 knots jn service would be attained. The boats were built at the Fore Yard Quincy, Massachusetts, and' cost £92,000 each.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 10, 12 July 1910, Page 7
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