SHIP OF THE FUTURE.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXVII, Issue 50, 20 December 1910, Page 3

SHIP OF THE FUTURE.

"The use of internal combustion en-1 gines for marine purposes as the motive power of large vessels is now becoming a question of immediate and practical importance," states the report of 'Lloyd's Register' for the past year. "The Deisei oil engine," which employs heavy oil and not petrol, "is now being fitted to three failry large vessels being built on the Continent under thesurveyors of 'Lloyd's Register,' " statos the report. !he horse-power developed will in each case be about 1800. Another set of internal combustion engines is being constructed in England for a vessel of about 260 tons. These engines will be of a novel type. They are intended to work with gas produced on board from coal, and the power from them will be transmitted by a stream of water driven by one turbine pump coupled diract to the engines to another turbine coupled direct to the screw. In the internal combustion engine power is developed, as in the petrol engine, by filling the cylinder with an explosive mixture of gas and air and then utilising the expansive force of the explosion to drive out the piston. No funnels or boilers are needed and, where oil is used, there is no cinder" and 'ash as with coal. The largest internal combustion engines hitherto constructed for maritime purposes have been th* 850 horsepower Diesel oil engines of certain of the British submarines, W that a great ftljojk twvwdthm been