SHELL-PROOF HULL
AMERICAN NAVAL TESTS
PHILADELPHIA, June 4.
The Navy made secret tests of a new shell-proof hull by exploding charges of dynamite against it on a raft on the Delaware River.
All vessels were ordered to stand clear. Studies to determine the effect of simulated torpedo fire on a caisson which was supposed to be made up of a series of watertight compartments were begun after the explosion.
The new design has been developed from the so-called "blister" hull introduced by the British Navy during the war.
New battleships are expected to be armour-plated above as well as below decks, to enable them to withstand aerial bombg-as-well as~torpedoei..
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 131, 6 June 1938, Page 9
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