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IN NATURE, vol. xxii. p. 270, we gave an account of this remarkable ship, and stated that we should report the results of her trials to our readers. We there said “it cannot be doubted that her speed will surpass 14 knots,” and we pretty plainly intimated that it would, in our judgment, fall substantially short of 17 knots; in point of fact it has fallen between these limits, and nearer the higher than the lower, the average mean speed at the measured distance being 15.864 knots. The details of the several runs, which have not previously been published in London, we believe, are as follows:—
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The Russian Imperial Yacht, “Livadia” . Nature 23, 27–28 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/023027a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/023027a0