A Monster Destroyer of Torpedo Destroyers.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11661, 22 January 1901, Page 2

A Monster Destroyer of Torpedo Destroyers.

The Kussians have evolved what may be regarded as a monster destroyer of destroyers. She is being built by Sehichau at EWing, and, unlike her prey, will have good sea-keeping qualities, besides guns and protection (says a correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph). The Novik, for this is the name of this latest disturber of the existing order of things uaval. 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 her size, and more than proportionately fragile, and liable to overstrain or worse. She will also have a turtleback deck of 2iti. of Krupp armour rising from below her water-line, and completely protecting her vitals from injury by auy light gun fire. While a destroyer carries only a few twelve and three pounders, this Russian ship has six 4*7 weapons of fame, besides eight three-pounders and a couple of Maxims, and she is fitted with no less than six torpedo tubes, all of , them above water, for no foreigner has under-water fittings lof a really satisfactory type. She will be able to discharge ahead or astern, and on her broadsides from four tubes, thus rendering her tbe most powerful offensive vessel with 'bis weapon afloat. Even the Elswick constructors have never given even a man-o'-war, twice or three times tbe size, more than five tubes. From these details of Jhe Novik's construction, which have been sot forth in the Engineer, it in evident that if this newest product of the naval constructor is not intended as a destroyer of the torpedo-boat destroyer and all her class she might pass under this designation. There is no reason to think that she will not achieve all anticipations. She will be a most formidable warship, an inflated sea-keeping destroyer of anything of less power and slighter defence that may have the mis fortune to fall in with her or ajtoe.ir hull dowu ou the horizon while hqo is prowling rouud. In any future war she will not be the only ship of her class, for sisters are being constructed at St Petersburg.

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