Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1898 — Torpedo Boat's Lost Speed. [ARTICLE]

Torpedo Boat's Lost Speed.

After spending $25,000 in repairing the torpedo boat destroyer Thrasher, which recently ran ashore on the Cor*.ish const, the British admiralty finds that it cun make only 24 knots an hour Instead of the 2.0 knots it made before the accident. '