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Show Ships ot the Future. .The. Austrian naval architect, Mr. C. A. Gagstatter, discusses future navigation naviga-tion in Tho London Nautical Magaziue, and defines tho limitation of the rule that tho longer a vessel the bettor she is for speed and carrying capacity. If a steamer steam-er could be built one mile long and about sixty feet wide, with ample motive power, pow-er, she could undoubtedly attain fabu-lous fabu-lous speed. Only one-thirtieth part of her length would have to overcome the water's inertia, whi'e tho rest of the vessel ves-sel would experience only surface friction. fric-tion. But such a model, the writer shows, involves a dangerous, yieldiug, unsolid structure, exposed to enormous strains, aiid is liable to be quickly broken in two. He consequently iixes'the limit of length at nine widths, but he couel.udes that ' "extreme speed being the principal aim, the lightning express vessels of the future will all be fitted out with three screws." i |