Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 162, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1913 — Steadying Ships. [ARTICLE]

Steadying Ships.

One of the latest of the many devices which have heen tried for preventing the rolling of ships at sea is Frahm’s anti-rolling tank, which- has been tested at Hamburg, and, it is said, to be installed on a new 55,000ton trans-Atlantic ship. It has also been tried on a warship. It consists of a U-shaped water reservoir placed crosswise inside the huli, and so adjusted that the movement of ths water, which can be controlled when neteseary by a/Nklve, counteracts the oscillations of the ship produced by the waves. The apparatus acts cm the principle of resonance of vibration. Applied to two trading vessels, which were “notorious rollersthe tanks are aaid to have practlcaßjr cured the defect