NON-ROLLING SHIPS.
The Cunard Company arc: having anti-rolling tanks installed in the Lactonia, now 'completing at Wallsend, and if the experiment is successful similar tanks will be fitted in the giant liner Aquatania, now building at Clydebank. The tanks are U-shaped, extending., fro-n one side of the ship to the other through the hold. The tanks contain water, the rising and falling of which neatralises the rolling motion of the ship. Tanks on this plan, the invention of Herr Frahm, have been installed in several German ship and will be fitted in the new mammoth vessel )f the Hamburg-Amerika line. In the \Haraburg-Amerika liners Ypiranga and Corcovado, the tanks reduced the rolling from 11 deg. to 2 deg.
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Northern Advocate, 18 December 1911, Page 3
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118NON-ROLLING SHIPS. Northern Advocate, 18 December 1911, Page 3
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