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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 72
Growth of Torpedo Boats of the Three Great Powers
Growth of Torpedo Boats of the Three Great Powers.
| Great Britain | France | Russia | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28-knot boats | — | 2 | — |
| 26-knot boats | — | 2 | 3 |
| 25-knot boats | — | 7 | 1 |
| 24-knot boats | — | 10 | — |
| 23-knot boats | 11 | 53 | — |
| 22-knot boats | — | 4 | 3 |
| 21-knot boats | — | 20 | 14 |
| Slow boats | — | 3 | 4 |
| 11 | 101 | 25 |
Recent information cabled from Home shows that greater vigour is now being exercised in respect of these boats. Among the latest completions are the Havock, with a speed of 26 knots per hour, and the Hazard, which makes 28 knots, that is 34 miles an hour, the highest rate yet reached by any of this class. This gives promise of the accomplishment of a speed of forty-miles-an-hour which has lately been predicted as the speed that may safely be reached. At the same time far larger provision has been made for extended naval construction in the Old Country.
The sixty-seven ton gun is to be abandoned by the Admiralty as too heavy for battleships. The 110 gun was similarly condemned some time ago. Guns of 12 inch bore and fifty tons which can be loaded by hand are to be the heavy weapons of the future.