Ocean Liner in Sections
If experiments prove successful, the new £0,000,000 Cunard Liner will be built in three sections, each of which will move independently of the other as the vessel meets the Atlantic rollers. It is not generally known that tho fore and aft portions of the Aquitania are hinged amidships so that, in rough weather, tho bow and stern may rise on the crest of the rollers as the midships portion sags in the trough.
The amount of this movement is only slight-, but it is great enough to reduce considerably the danger which naval architects have to guard continually against, of the liner’s back breaking in very heavy seas.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7412, 20 December 1930, Page 12
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112Ocean Liner in Sections Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7412, 20 December 1930, Page 12
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