SHIP'S REMARKABLE TOUR.
20,000 MILES IN A SUBMARINE.
A British submarine, the K 26', has just completed a journey of 20,000 miles all by itself.
Hitherto a submarine has been supposed to travel with a "parent" ship, which carried supplies for it, and looked after* it generally; but K 26 is so big (she has 2140 tons displacement) that she can do all this for herself.
She has a surface speed of 24 knots an hour. When she is submerged she is driven by internal combustion engines, but when she is on the surface she is driven by steam. This makes her much hotter, and one of the objects of the voyage was to see if it made her too hot for the comfort of the men.
So the boat when through the Suez Canal and the Red Sea to India and
Singapore and back. The Red Sea is always terribly hot, 'to say nothing of the East Indies, but the health of the crew, 50 in number, was excellent throughout. They lived on the boat all the time, even in harbour at Singapore.
K 26 left Singapore on the return journey on June 10. She started out from Portsmouth on January 2.
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Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 16174, 27 December 1924, Page 14 (Supplement)
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