Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, a volume of original, historic and descriptive writings showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress (1901)
Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, A. J. Holman & co · leaf 81
s. Her average was 16.6 knots for the run,and 17 knots during a period of six consecutive hours — a speed which for 11years thereafter was unapproached by liner or by warship. In 1879, the Britishdespatch vessel Mercury, of 3730 tons and 18.87 knots, wrested the palm fromAmerica; but, in 1893, it… … THE CENTURYS NAVAL PROGRESS 69 though built in England in 1895, flies the flag of Argentina. She has a ton-nage of 4500 and a speed of 23.202 knots. The British ironclad Pallas, completed in 1866, was remarkable for havingthe first successful naval engines on the compound principle, in which…
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