A correspondent of the Glasgow Herald reported that an unnamed torpedo boat destroyer built by Messrs. Thornycroft had maintained a speed of 27.97 knots for a period of three hours, consuming seventeen and a quarter tons of coal in her three water-tube boilers in the process. Boats of this class carried 68 tons of coal, which would enable them to steam at full speed for over nine hours, during which time the could travel 250 nautical miles.