FAST TORPEDO BOAT
FIVE NEW SPEED RECORDS ROME, February 19. The Italian press pr'oudly announces that a motor-boat in the Italian Navy has established five speed records. Presumably it is one of the new motor-torpedo boats that are designed to torpedo battleships under the cover of smoke-screens. It is stated that the boat, which displaces 20 tons, and is fitted with Isotta Fraschim engines, covered 625 miles in the open sea without refuelling, that it cruised one mile at 48 45 knots, for one hour at 47.83 knots, for six hours at 46.46 knots, for nine hours at 45.75 knots, for 12 hours at 44.99 knots.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 20982, 10 March 1938, Page 9
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106FAST TORPEDO BOAT Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 20982, 10 March 1938, Page 9
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