Excerpt from The Technical World, Vol. 1: May, 1904 It is interesting to note that the engines were twin-screw, three-cylinder, com pound, with a four-foot stroke. Steam at 60 pounds' pressure was furnished from twelve Scotch boilers. The ship carried tons of coal, and developed a speed of knots on trial. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.