Published Resources Details Journal Article

Title
Torpedo destroyers
In
The Engineer
Imprint
vol. 81, 7 February 1896, p. 136
Description

Accession No.426

Abstract

The trials of two torpedo boat destroyers, the Sunfish and the Opossum (both; length 200 feet, beam 19 feet 6 inches, draught 8 feet 7 inches; displacement 310 tons), built and engined by Messrs. Hawthorn, Leslie, and Company, Newcastle-on-Tyne, took place in January and February 1896. The particulars of the three hour full power trial of the Sunfish which took place on the 15th of January, 1896, were as follows: displacement 281 tons, average speed 28.03 knots in six runs over the measured mile, average speed over three hours 27.581 knots, steam pressure in the boilers 188 pounds per square inch, air pressure in the stokeholds 2.95 inches of water gauge, mean indicated horsepower 4,174. The particulars of the three hour full power trial of the Opossum which took place on the 3rd of February, 1896, were as follows: displacement 279 tons, average speed 28.242 knots in six runs over the measured mile, average speed over three hours 27.131 knots, steam pressure in the boilers 192 pounds per square inch, air pressure in the stokeholds 3 inches of water gauge, mean indicated horsepower 3,895.

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