FUTURE LINERS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXL, Issue 20284, 6 December 1935, Page 6

FUTURE LINERS

... GIGANTIC FISH-LIKE VESSELS Marine architects are convinced that the next phase of shipbuilding will be the construction of great .streamlined liners capable of slicing through tha ocean at over 40 miles an hour. A model steamship exhibited at .the Trieste Marine Exposition in Italy indicates the direction shipbuilding is likely to follow. The liner of the future, according to one expert, will be a gigantic fish-like structure with all its decks enclosed. There will be no masts, funnels, o* other superstructure to catch the wind; and even in the stormiest weather full speed will be maintained without danger or discomfort. The new liners will be able to make the Atlantic passage in from three to four days. The cost of the streamlined ships will be little more than that of the Normandie or the Queen Mary, and the greater ease with which they will be driven will make them much less expensive to run, The nearest approach to the liner, of the future yet built is the streamlined ferry-boat Kalakala, which has been put into sendee at Puget Sound, on the Pacific Coast. This boat has room within its glistening rounded superstructure for 2000 passengers and 200 motor-cars.