Page 2nd Cover: of Maritime Reporter Magazine (May 1974)

Photograph courtesy of The Science Museum, London. "What is it? Where did it come from?"

The year was 1897. The occasion, the naval review celebrating the DIAMOND

JUBILEE OF QUEEN VICTORIA.

Suddenly there dashed out among the assembled ships a small craft scooting along at the then incredible speed of 34X/2 KNOTS.

From the astounded naval officers came cries of, "What is it? Where did it come from?"

It was the "TURBINIA," the first ship E owered by turbine engines. It had been uilt at Wallsend on theTyne in 1894, with engines invented by SIR CHARLES

PARSONS, and taken secretly to COWES for its surprise appearance in the naval review.

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