The Impériense will be relieved as flagship on the China Station by the Centurion nag the latter la ready for aca. This vessel, which was built at Portsmouth and engined by the Greenock Koundry Company, has just made her full speed trial, when the highest speed ever attained by & battleship was reached, namely, 1851 knots per hour, and even this is believed to be belo) actual performance of the vessel, as it was obtained solely from the log, which rarely flatters. There was little wind and a smooth sea. The trial lasted for four hours, and the men results were. ler pressure, 146 Ibs.
vacuum, 27°35; revolutions 1047 and 1048 port, " remarkable m of the uniformity of act the two sets of engines; total indicated horse power 13,174 or 174 beyond what had been stipulated for, Sowe effective operations lind been made in the slide val and the leakages in the stoke-holds which. Aiing their proper work, had been stopped. revented the fans for compressed air
The consumption of coal was 2241b. per indicated horse power per hour.
The Centy type is smaller than the Royul eign class, being nominally second but they will do a8 effective service, while costing a quarter 0 legs than the Royal Sovereign and £125,000 less thaw the ill-fated Victor Poey are slightly smaller in dimensions, The big guns ure 29, instead of 67-ton weapons, and the armour is 4 inches reater, a result of the displace: 10,500 instend of 14,150 tons, Th worked with great regularity on the tru, although the port generally was the faster running engine, except towards the close, due to weather or rusider influences; con: frequently it developed the greater power, 6.773, against 6,401 for the sixrboard, and that notwithstanding that the mean for the four hours only showed a difference of one decimal point, the port running 104.8 revolutions per minnte,—L. & 0, Express,
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