AN ALUMINIUM BOAT.
Tests of the aluminium boats recently constructed by a Baltimore firm have been made under the supervision of the American Naval Department, and are reported to have proved singularly successful. . The first boat which was experimented upon waß 18 feet long, 4 feet beam and 2 feet deep amidships, and weighed 3501 b. It was placed empty in the water, when a man tried, unsuccessfully, to capsize it by Bitting on the gunwale. It was then heavily laden, yet remained &$ inches above water amidships. The boat waß subsequently unloaded, and the air-tight compartments tested by capsizing it, yet it, was found impossible to get it more than half full of water, as the air-tight compartments held it ao high as to act on the principle of a eelf-bailer. The boat was then taken alongside a wharf and filled with water until the gunwale was flush with the surface, when a man got on each end over the air-tight compartment. Even then the boat did not sink, but so soon as cast loose it heeled over, emptied {one half of the water and then righted itself.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5282, 12 June 1895, Page 4
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188AN ALUMINIUM BOAT. Star (Christchurch), Issue 5282, 12 June 1895, Page 4
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