Show URGE BULKHEADS TO SAVE SHIPS FROM TORPEDOES I LONDON LONDO Ma May Ia IS J. IS-J. J. J W. W Isherwood I naval architect said recently that 1150 50 per cent of the merchant ships sunk b by U-boats U could have been saved saed if It the they had had been built with bulkheads In proportion of oC about one for every forty i feet oC of their length It Is quite an easy matter he said to build a ship which cannot be sunk by one torpedo and as a rule that is sufficient to sink the ships of oC the mercantile mer mer- cantile canUlo marine toda today I maintain that if fC the tile GI Castle had been heen fitted with ten instead of ot six water tight ht compartments it would have remained afloat The same applies to practically all ships that have gone one down as a r re result rt- rt sult suit of one torpedo |