THE SHIP OF THE FUTURE
A French authority recently stated that the threat of trans-ocean air travel makes it necessary to tackle shipbuilding from a new angle. The ship can never compete with the airliner in speed, but it can offer its passengers comfort, safety, cuisine, . freedom, amusement, and rest to a far greater degree, says Mr. W. J. Bassett-Lowke, a well-known maker of models, in describing the ship of the future in the "P.L.A. Monthly." These things must, therefore, be exploited to the full. Streamlining is an essential part of the design of the ship of the future. The decks are glass-enclosed to decrease wind resistance as well as to protect passengers from the breath of the sea. Indeed, it is possible that only conditioned air will be used throughout the ship except in the outside cabins. Funnels are the greatest difficulty in preventing perfect streamlining, and in this ship the uptakes are run into horizontal tunnels, £nd, with parallel or adjoining tunnels, help \to ventilate tlie entire ship.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 80, 1 October 1938, Page 25
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