A new torpedo-boat destroyer, Desperate, built by Messrs Thornycroft for tho British Government, went recently through an official 3-hours’ trial. She made 30 knots an hour with ease, the actual distance covered in the trial being 103] statute mile:-). 1 lie wind was high and tho sea rough. The Admiralty officials a expressed themselves as being perfectly satis* \ fi * d ’
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1267, 11 June 1896, Page 18
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