Maritime Locomotion.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2341, 1 February 1893, Page 4

Maritime Locomotion.

♦ Oar readers may reoall a certain Lieutenant Apostolow, of the Bassian navy, wbo. x went to Marseilles, some two years tgo with a view to perfeoting a new maritime invention which was to revolutionise the present system of marine locomotion. In the interim very little has been heard of the yonng Muscovite. Bat it appears that his project is not lying .. dormant, for last week be gave a private exposition of his ingenious models before Admiral Van der Fleet, Baron Bisfcrom, Captain Perelesohin, ana other naval offider'Si in the directors' room of the Russian Company's establishment in ' Odessa. Although reporters wee not admitted to the interesting gathering, " iuffioipnt information has been collated to ■how ihat Lieutenant Apostolow's new ■hip has neither sorew nor paddle. Instead, there is "a kind of running electriqal gear right round the vessel's hull under the water line, and a revolving mechanism which will propel the ship from Liverpool to New York in 28houre." 1 THia, however, is bnt ( one part of tbe - Russian's , soheme. Some unreasonably timid ' persons, Lieutenant Apostolow imagines, might object to tbe discomfort of being swished through the Atlantio billows at the rate of 130 knots an bour ( To these nervons people he offers the alternative of a submarine passage " with* out rock, roll, or vibratioD, and with a good supply •of oxygen aria hydrogen during the short voyage. What the Czar's officers think of the Apostolow plans is not recorded. AH that is certain is that the lieutenant has quitted Odessa for Moscow and St. Petersburg, where he intends to exhibit his modelß before he embarks with them for that Valhalla of inventors— the Chicago World's Fair.— lion.