Turbine destroyers have attained a speed of 35 and a half knots, or nearly 41 miles per hour.
The wind was so fresh that we did as much as eight and a half knots; when sailing at such a rate through a loose stream of ice, we sometimes ran upon a floe, which went under the ship's bottom, and came up alongside the other way up.
Observations there were none, of course; our speed had varied between two and eight and a half knots, and we had steered all manner of courses.
October went out and November came in with a fresh breeze from the south-south-west, so that we did nine and a half knots.
The current here ran one and a half knots, but the quantity of water was trifling and the channel throughout very narrow, at times sweeping under the bank, so as not to allow room for the oars.
The set past the ship was greatest at the last quarter of the flood and first of the ebb, when it ran two-and-half knots, and turned very suddenly.
They now made for the shore the best way they could, each trying which could reach it the quickest, but the wheel-boats had a decided advantage, and were moved through the water at the rate of about three and a half knots an hour.
Confidence in all her qualities daily increased, and, with a strong breeze on the quarter, she was now sailing, under canvas only, at the rate of eight to nine and a half knots an hour.
We were going about four or maybe four and a half knots at the time, and the report of the strange sail created as much excitement on board us as though we had been a man-o'-war.
It was a dead calm on the Gulf of Mexico, and the Sylvania was still making eleven and a half knots an hour.
We had been driving the Sylvania to her utmost, and Ben Bowman reported that we were making eleven and a half knots, which was doing exceedingly well in the teeth of a fresh north-west wind.
The log-slate showed that we had made eleven and a half knots.
The Voyerada next succeeded in getting her screw vertical, when, without any change in the wind, the speed increased to four and a half knots.
At length the Voyerada succeeded in lifting her screw, when immediately all the sloops under the same canvas continued their course, making six to six and a half knots.
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