Ferro-concrete ships would rot be hopelessly smashed like earfchsirvare> vessels if they came into collision (sajs a British writer). If one ferro-con- , crete vessel travelling at ; high speed rtn-',' into another vessel of the same class," bow on, damage would naturally result, „• but the mischief would be much Ifßd,, than that which would happen to two',, steel ships, owing to the greater city possessed by ferro-concrete fortfee; r absorption of shock _ The only instance , on record of a collision, of two vessels was furnished last year, during tho flooding of a dock basin at Baltyp£ * on the Panama Canal, when two 'o«fciV crete pontoons, 120 ft long by 28ft beafß,",'. collided violently without suffering aij. damage. • »v~"
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16402, 23 December 1918, Page 8
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