The Ashburton Guardian.

Vol xxi. no. 5543

Ashburton ; Monday, December 9, 1901.

Price : One Penny

How the Cobra was Lost.

DECISION OF THE COURT MARTIAL.

I The Ooort-Martial to ioqoire into the loss of the torpedo boat destroyer Gobra sat on October 16 th on board the Victory at Portsmouth—Rear Ad* miral Pelbam Aid rich presiding. Some hours were spent in private delibera tions and at half-past six the Oonrfc wag opened to 'the public. The chief engineer of the Oobra and the other survivors were marched in by (he Maeter-at- Arms and stood at attention. The Deputy Judge Advocate (Mr M»rti») then read as follows:—'Finding —The Court having taken the evidence of Chief Engineer J J G G Percy and that cf the remaining anrvivors and all other evidence they deem neeeeßary, and having deliberately weighed »nd considered the whole of the evidence before them, find that Hia Majesty's ship Oobra foundered on the morning of the eighteenth day of September „ while on passage from the Tyne to Portsmouth. " The Court has come to the con clusion that his Majesty's ship Cobra did not touch the ground nor meet with any obstruction, nor was her lon i due to any error of navigation, but ii attributable to the structural weakneu of the ship. " Tho Uourtalso find that the Cobr* was weaker than other destroyers, and in view of that fact it is to be regretted that she was purchased into Hit Majesty's service. 11 The Court further find that no blame is attributable to Chief Engineer JJGG Percy, nor to the remaining survivors, and folly acquits them." This judgment was signed by all the members of the Court, who, during fail delivery, put on their cocked hate. The President—Mr Percy, we have to hand you back your sword. Mr Percy—Thank you sir. The President—The Court desire to express their opinion that the handling of the dinghy efter the accident U ; worthy of all praise, and that Cox swain Francis Barns deserves great credit for the way in which he acted ofTthe trying occasion. The Court is dissolved. The Chief Engineer and the other survivors then left the Victory,

Why Destroyers Buckle.

The strange foundering of HMS Cobra—bo soon after that of her tiller abip Viper—together with the sag* gestive finding of the Coroner's Jary last week, has given much food for thought to the average newspaper reader as well as to naval architects in general throughout the country. Never perhaps, since the capsizing ofHMS*"* Captain in 1870 haa the speculative or theoretical side of ship construction and design been brought more acutely to the minds of the British public as during these past few days. To ft student of naval architecture the ten dency of a ship to

BREAK OB DOUBLE-UP amidships is a familiar assumption when questions of strains and stresses are under - consideration, but that a vessel should in actual fact undergo such an experience seems well nigh in credible, xfet the story of the diver who examined the wreck of the Cobra leaves very little doubt upon the matter. To break completely asunder a ship must be subjected to tremendous ' hogging' or' sagging' strains, and to clearly realise what these mean no better illustration can be used than ; that given at the inqueit—" bent or broken like a cane or stick." Take* flexible wood batten and break it acron your knee in the ordinary way, and you get a practical example of severe ' bogging strains;' lay a similar batten across both knees, and press down the central part until it snaps, and yon get a notion of

WHAT " BAOGIKG" MEANS. Apply this idea to a ship among waves. Place a floating body similar to the Cobra, momentarily upon the creit- of a central wave, and the heavily-laden ends of the ship are quite unsupported by the water, and there is a tendency to s hog' or break. Daring the very next moment, perhaps, the selfsame vessel ra%y be situated with a wave crest at each extremity and the long centre portion, containing machinery, boilers, coalß, &c, entirely without support, thus a severe «sag' "or,.break in an opposite direction. This latter condition approximates in all probabi* lity to that of the Cobra jaa6 prior to her foundering, and the final collapia may have been hasteneed by a heavy cross-sea fallling in apon the midship deck at this critical moment.

IS THERE ANY REMEDY for this ? one naturally aaka. Yes! One sure and simple method of prevent" ing this danger is well known to every shipbuilder. Briefly, it consist! in slightly thickening the outer plating of the vessel along the central portion. An addition, as indicated, of only cne sixteenth of an inch to the ship's structure would increase the resistance to breakage, in either direction, enor mously ; and the additional weight involved in this change would scarcely equal l-200th part of the total displace ment of the ship! In competition for speed and lightness the factor of structural strength has been undoubt edly cut too finei — Morning Leader,



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