Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1899 — Ice-Breaking Ships. [ARTICLE]

Ice-Breaking Ships.

Vice Admiral Makarow, of the Russian navy, has been studying the construction anduseof powerful ice-break-ing ships. At a recent meeting of the Imperial Geographical society at St. Petersburg, he expressed his belief that with two such ships, each of 10,000 horse-power, acting together, a line of free water communication could be kept open in winter to the port of St. Petersburg, and he added that they could even force their way through the glacial ocean if the thickness of the ice did not exceed 12 feet. Youth’s Companion.