A NOVEL STEAMER.
RESULT OF THE WAR.
MISLEADING THE SUBMARINES. [from our own correspondent.] SYDNEY, May 3. Striking examples of inventions during tho last days of the war, so far as the mercantile marine is concerned, are demonstrated on the steamer Bembridge, which is now in Sydney. To mislead submarines, her foremast is several feet starboard of the keel. Her funnel, much shorter than that of tho average steamer of her tonnage, is over the keel, and by looking through tho periscope of a submarine it would be impossible to tell which way the steamer was going. Another of her wonders is the way that smoke can be diverted from the funnel to a secret thoroughfare near the waterline. It is thus that the steamer can make an effoctive smoke screen in time of emergency. At tho stern the visitor has goal-post collapsible masts, which can be reduced to deck level in a few minutes. The rails around the poop deck can be cleared for action like those of a man-o'-war. Two guns, which have now been dismounted, can bo made ready for action. On deck, near the wheel house, a small piece of mechanism remains. By a simple process the steam may he cut off from the boilers without the trouble of going below.
(Published by Arrangement.)
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18087, 11 May 1922, Page 9
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218A NOVEL STEAMER. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18087, 11 May 1922, Page 9
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