Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 291, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1910 — THIS WARSHIP HAS NO CREW [ARTICLE]

THIS WARSHIP HAS NO CREW

Vessel Directed and Operated From Shore by Means of Wireless Is the Latest. New York.—The “crewless warship, a vessel directed and operated from shore by means of a complicated wireless apparatus, is the latest naval wonder in Germany, according to reports which have just reached the navy men here. Within a radius of 18 miles from the controlling apparatus the new warship, it is said, can be started, stopped, steered and its guns com trolled or fired by means of electrical waves communicated without wires. The German naval experts are marking experiments with a motor boat near Nuremberg. The statements of an eye witness who watched the progress of some of these trials Is pub, fished here. “The boat," he says, “was absolutely unmanned. All the apparatus on board was controlled from the bank of the lake by means of wireless telegraphy. : —, —— "When I first arrived the boat waS, lying motionless in the middle of the lake. No one was on board. Suddenly a gun was fired on the deck and I saw the screw begin to revolve and drive the boat forward. “I watched the maneuvers of the unmanned boat for an hour during the daytime and again in the evening. At the end. of each test the unmanned vessel was brought to her anchorage by the same unseen forces.”