SEA-SICKNESS PROOF

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 October 1931, Page 14

SEA-SICKNESS PROOF

CLAIMS FOR NEW LINER. LONDON, August 21. A positive guarantee against seasickness will be given to passengers in the now giant Cunarder, the largest, liner in the world, which is under construction on the Clyde. The most nervous of sailors will aboard her without a thought of green faces, restless nights of agony, or appalling days spent hanging over the taffrail. The worst sailors in the world will be able to eat salmon mayonnaise and ice cream in the midst of one of the Atlantic’s most tempestuous gales. Science has defeated the scourge of the sea. “No. 534,” as the giant liner is at present called, will be unable to pitch or roll. A secret device, upon which engineers have worked for years and which has been tested in scores of artificial gale-swept seas, produced in special experimental tanks, will be fitted to the giant ship. By means of this invention, which works on the gyroscopic principle.

the steadiness of the vessel is assured, and she will be kept on an even keel in the roughest of seas. The apparatus,.which costs £200.000 weighs more than three hundred tons. Anyone sitting in the restaurant or in .‘lie. .smoke-room of the liner will have to use all his imagination to realise that he is on board ship. All thoughts of mal-de-mer will be banished. The bows arc also designed to assist the mechanical device in preventing any trace of rolling. Experiments lasting many months have proved that the decks of the liner will remain spotiesly dry, even when she is travelling at her top speed of thirty-five knots in the, dirtiest of weather.