. St. Nicholas [serial] . THE NIBBIO. BUILT BY SCHICAU, FOR ITALY. boat built for Italy by Schicau,— the of these boats can run nearly twenty-seven knots an hour.* A knot, you know, isa sea mile, which is one and one-seventh landmiles, so these boats can make about thirty milesan hour, or about the average speed of a rail-road passenger-train. Just think of a boat The next most important thing in a torpedoboat is quick turning; and for this purpose thelarger Normand, Schicau, and Yarrow boatshave two rudders, one in the usual place atthe stern, and one under the bow. Mr. Thorny-cro
. St. Nicholas [serial] . THE NIBBIO. BUILT BY SCHICAU, FOR ITALY. boat built for Italy by Schicau,— the of these boats can run nearly twenty-seven knots an hour.* A knot, you know, isa sea mile, which is one and one-seventh landmiles, so these boats can make about thirty milesan hour, or about the average speed of a rail-road passenger-train. Just think of a boat The next most important thing in a torpedoboat is quick turning; and for this purpose thelarger Normand, Schicau, and Yarrow boatshave two rudders, one in the usual place atthe stern, and one under the bow. Mr. Thorny-croft has another device. He puts two curvedrudders near the stern and the propeller is. YARROW DEEP-SEA TORBEDO BOAT. rushing through the water as fast as a train between them, so that when the rudders areof cars runs over the land! turned together, the water which the pro- * Since this article was written, a sister-boat to the Nibbio, the Adlcr, built for Russia, has broken therecord for speed, by making about knots. 9°) DAVID AND GOLIATH IN NAVAL WARFARE. 27 peller is driving astern is turned a little to oneside and helps to push around the boat. The latest idea in torpedo boats is to havetheir launching tubes mounted on turn-tableson deck instead of being fixed in the this improvement a boat will not haveto steam straight at her enemy, stop, launchits torpedo, and then turn to run away; butit can train its tube on the big ship as if thetube were a gun, and launch the torpedo whilerushing past at full speed. This would be less only one worth mentioning is to have a big netstretched around the ship, hanging down intothe water from the ends of long booms w
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