Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 290, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1910 — Ne[?] Vessel of Warfare. [ARTICLE]

Ne[?] Vessel of Warfare.

It is said that the British admiralty has decided to build an experimentaL motor-driven battleship, propelled by an internal-comburtion engine. Naval engineers have long had their eyes on this type of engine as the ultimateform of power for naval vessels, and experiments have been carried oik with the gunboat Rattler vftth Satisfactory results. A battleship, equipped with such a motor, would have noboilers, stokers,. a--r smokestacks, except such vents as are necessary tocarry off the products of combustion, and it is asserted that such a vessel,, if successful, would, by the economieseffected in weight, space, and cost of working, and by the seditions} speed due to the absence of smokestacks, render all vessels of the present Dreadnought type obsolete.