In an adventurous career he has been pioneer, aviator, and amateur boxer. His hobby has always been speedboats.
He challenged Gar Wood for the British—International Motor-boat "Trophy.
He failed. But his boats g: ye him ideas for a new naval weapon Six of the motor torpedo-boats built by the British Power Company now form part of the Mediterranean Fleet," an official of the firm iold the "Sunday Chronicle."
They will be able to engage war ships at close quarters when des troyers would not be able to.
Each carries two torpedoes which can be discharged by a new system, multiple machine-guns and dep! charges to fight submarines.
The crew of these "neck or nothing" boats will be two officers and six men.
These boats are minia warships which cost one-thirteenth the price of a destroyer.
With their great speed, these easilymanceuvrable craft are capable of crippling ships of large dimension They can stop dead, when at a speed of 40 knots, in 4! seconds. and turn at right angles in five seconds,
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