UNSINKABLE SHIPS.

Press, Volume XL, Issue 5709, 5 January 1884, Page 2

UNSINKABLE SHIPS.

riSBSS ASSOCIATION TXL-QBUC.} 'i WELLmGTON,Januarw_ U The following is an extract from a tetter ' * received by the Postmaster-General from ij the Agent-General, dated London, 8UNovember:—"Sir,—l observe that in thft ii debate which took place in the House of Representatives when the report of tha Joint Committee on the direct steam service was brought up, the recommendation ( of the Committee respecting uns_d_W* j ships was received with some dons*. | but the question of building «_* J shif-s has been seriously consider*- \/J in this country, and it will be seas <*S by the following extract from a paper f | on the mercantile marine of Englaaa.' , J| which appeared a few days agojn t&* M 'Coatempornry Review,' by Sir Edward i.M Reid, MP., who, as you are aware, W* >'fj famous authority on shipbuading, *la» f« satisfied,* says Sir Edward R_d, f that» , > S is possible, w»4 wapattble with **•#, vM

__._.n_jle Bojnau-rcial requirement, to "iron and steel stoam<rs of an W __sleTp~--- k '' ble ' that U h z r- _H_Tfte nHt extreme accidents, and 2?SS continually sending fine and tStfrThips to th/ bottom. But thw £$ inst-be brought about by much -ffitudinal, as well as transverse subjffia, and by the resort to water-tight __*s communicated with from above by Z2*_-tight tanks to an extent,, scarcely rnShtof- Nothing would tend more _i enlarge ocean traffic, and to enable it to J__nare and compete wi*h land traffic on «orecqnal conditions than any at present ' ___ the general resort to unsinkable j!_i.' I have called Sir Edward Reid's ____tion to Mr Isbister's scheme of a -*_eti~nal -hip/ which the Government i_St sent mc at the request of Mr v«>»-drew,H.H.R,becanse of its design of Jhvidin" » shi P b y a wal ' of Bteel « torm - TV longitudinal section. Trie f__sß meets the requirements specially ?u_3edon by Sir Edward in his paper, ™*J3_e thin-B fit to express any opinion design. I will take care to let you __w. J B *^ c mea nwhile lam calling the the two shipping companies to gfrßJhnrfs remarka."