She was the largest fastest and latest thing in seagoing destroyers and though the specifications called for but thirty-six knots' speed she had made thirty-eight on her trial trip and later under careful nursing by her engineers she had increased this to forty knots an hour-five knots faster than any craft afloat-and with a clean bottom this speed could be depended upon at any time it was needed.
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