rro THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTAT011."J
Sin,—The thanks of all patriotic men are due to you for your articles on the demented policy of the Admiralty. How long will the ' Dreadnought ' retain any capacity for speed if she is left rusting at the Nore ? A railway friend of mine tells me that if an express engine were taken off the road and confined to shunting work about the yard, she would become useless for express work. If she were put on an express train she would almost certainly "run hot" before she had accom- plished half her journey. The complication of the 'Dread- nought's' machinery is infinitely greater and more multiform, and would afford Correspondingly greater dangers of a break- down. And, as you so convincingly point out, the engineers would be out of practice in dealing with any such breakdown. But why labour the point? With the warning of the Russian Fleet before them, our experts deliberately set themselves to imitate that disastrous example.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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