TO ABOLISH SEA-SICKNESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12266, 9 May 1903, Page 5 (Supplement)

TO ABOLISH SEA-SICKNESS.

FRENCH NAVAL OFFICER'S CURIOUS CRAFT.

Paris, March 11.How to overcome seasickness is the problem M. Turc, a French naval officer and formerly a pupil of the Mcole Polytechnique, set himself to solve, and which he believes he has now mastered.

Seasickness, says M. Turc, is caused by the roll of the vessel, so that to prevent mal de rner it is only necessary to construct a vessel that will neither roll 1101 pitch. That is his contention, and as the roll of a wave rarely lasts longer than ten seconds in a narrow sea like the Mediterranean, and fifteen seconds in larger seas, like the Atlantic, his vessel would have to have a counter-roll lasting twenty-two seconds. The form of the vessel would be peculiar, and might be described as a combination of submarine and platform, the lattei rising high above the surface of the sea. In the submarine, 300 ft long. 75ft broad, and 12ft deep, would be placed the boilers, engines, and steering gear, which would be submerged to a "depth of twelve feet. From the submarine would rise vertically two floaters, 20Oft long and 10ft broad, lying parallel at a distance of 65ft from each other. Communication would be maintained by these floaters between the submarine and the platform, containing a cabin, at a height of 30ft above the water. This novel craft would have a displacement of 6300 tons, and would be propelled at a speed ot nineteen knots an hour bv engines of 16,000 horse-power.