Glasgow, have just completed two ocean-going torpedo-boat destroyers for the Japanese Government. The main propelling machinery is to consist of an installation of steam turbines, and each will also have, for cruising purposes, two Diesel engines of 1,200 b.h.p. The twin turbines will each be of 12,000 h.p., and when the vessels are running at cruising speeds the twin screws will be driven by the oil engines, which, it is understood, will operate the propellers by means of solid shafts working inside tubular shafts. The Diesel engines are of the six-cylinder, four-cycle type and they are designed to give the vessels a speed of from thirteen to fourteen knots.
When the turbines are in use the speed will be about thirty-four knots. The advantage of the cruising machinery lies in the great saving in fuel which will be possible and the rapidity with which the vessels can be got under way. The destroyers are to be named Kawakaze and Urakaze respectively.
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