Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 253, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1913 — PREDICTS NEW TYPE OF SHIP [ARTICLE]

PREDICTS NEW TYPE OF SHIP

Waterplane, According to Writer, Is Forerunner of Change in Marine Architecture. The waterplane, I believe, is the forerunner of an entirely new kind of ocean-going ship. At present a ship's speed Is checked by reason of the tremendous resistance offered to her passage by the water. Now if we could produce a vessel that traveled on the top of the water

she 3fould only have to overcome the resistance of the air,* which Is not nearly so powerful as water resistance. This is the kind of vessel which, I f ancy. the waterplane foreshadows—the ocean-going liner of the future. The ship of the future will probably be flat-bottomed, winged, and with a rudder-tall. She ' will sometimes rise above the waves, and at others travel along the top of the waters, but only touch them with her flat bottom. When a ship now travels at 23 knots she will in the days to come make 60

or perhaps even 70 knots, because she will skim, instead of being sunk in. I expect to see this type of vessel make her appearance during the next twenty years. And when she has •ctually come into being a revolution will have been effected In transit and traveling facilities in comparison to which the introduction of steamship, railways and motor cars will seem ia significant.—Exchange 7 £ tsstt : 1 A man may be a heavyweight fighter and a lightweight husband.