BRITISH CRUISER
GOOD RECORD
IN LONG-DISTANCE CRUISING
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright;.
(Received this day at 11 a.m.) LONDON, May 31. Air 1 Lector Bywuter, writing in th- “ Daily Telegraph,” says Britain’s latest cruiser, the Arethusa, is the cheapest and smallest built since tin war, and holds the Navy’s and probably the world’s record for long-dis-tance steaming. ' The vessel has turbines developing (51,000 horsepower, which will drive it at nearly 33 knots. The novelty consists of a fluid flywheel, enabling the engineers ,to switch over from the main engines to a smaller cruising turbine. This is so efficient and economical that, working alone, it will drive, the ship over ' twenty-five knots, or at a lower speed propel her half way round the world.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19350601.2.35
Bibliographic details
Hokitika Guardian, 1 June 1935, Page 5
Word Count
124BRITISH CRUISER Hokitika Guardian, 1 June 1935, Page 5
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in