People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1894 — Horse Power of the Whale. [ARTICLE]

Horse Power of the Whale.

An interesting study of the horse power of the whale has been made by the eminent anatomist. Sir William Turner,of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, in conjunction with Mr. John Henderson, the equally eminent Glasgow shipbuilder. The size and dimensions of a great whale, stranded several years ago on the shore at Longriddy, furnished the necessary data for computation of the power necessary to propel it at the rate of twelve miles an hour. This whale measured eighty feet in length, twenty feet across the flanges of the tail, and weighed seventy-four tons. It was calculated that one hundred and fortyfive horse power was neoessary to attain the speed mentioned.