STARTLING NAVAL NEWS
The Russians have evolved what may be regarded as a monster destroyer of destroyers. She is being buiLt by Schiebau at Eibmg, and, unlike her prey, will have good sea keeping qualities, besides guns and protection (says a correspondent of the ‘‘London Telegraph”). The Novik, for this is the name of this
latest disturber of the existing order of things naval, will have a displacement, of about 3000 tons, and a speed of 25
knots. In a seaway she will be able to travel even better than- a flotilla *of destroyers, each a tenth of her size, and ; more than proportionately fragile and '[ liable to overstrain or worse. . She will ; also have a turtle-back deck of two A inches of Krupp armour rising from be- It low her water-line, and completely pro- 7 tecting her vitals from injury by any r light gun fire. While a destroyer carries f only a few twelve and three-pounders, this Russian ship has six 4.7 weapons of ; fame, besides eight three-pounders and y a couple of Maxims, and she is fitted or wit-H no less than six torpedo tubes, ail 1 of them above water, for no foreigner has under water fittings of a really satis-;rd factory type. She will be able to discharge ahead or astern, and on her y broadsides from four tubes, thus rendering her the most powerful offensive vessel with this weapon afloat. Even the*
Elswlck constructors have never given • a man-of-war, twice or three times the * size, more than five tubes. From these details of the Norik's construction, which -. have been set forth in the “Engineer,” . it is evident that, if this newest product of / the.. raril ccnS tractor'ls ynot; intended ’ as" a destroyer of; the ' uestroyer and all her class she might pass under this designation, There is no rea- y son to think that she will not achieve y all anticipations, tine will be a most fori-mid-able warship, an inflated sea-keeping . destroyer of anything of less power and -slighter defense- that may have the 'mis-,;' fortune to' fall in with her or appear hull , down on the horizon while r she is prowl- ! ing around. In any future, war she wiil not be the -only" ship of her class, for’’ sisters are being: constructed at St. Petersburg. " -y-y :
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1523, 28 February 1901, Page 17
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