Salt Lake Times | 1890-05-10 | Page 6 | A New Sheathing for Ships

A New Sheathing for Milp. A few years ago tho Japanese government govern-ment decided on lacquering tho bottoms of all their iron ships, and the results proved that corrosion was most effectively effective-ly prevented. The process does not seem to have been applied to foreign Bhips until un-til about two years ago, when the attention atten-tion of the captain of a Russian frigate was directed to it, and lacquer was applied ap-plied both to tho iron and unc parte of tho bottom. To the latter it was found that the adhesion of the lacquer was very light, but on the iron, or rather steel, it was found that it was in an extraordinary extra-ordinary good state of preservation, so much so that it could not be stripped off except by being scraped with a sharp instrument, in-strument, and from the experience thus gained it has been decided to substitute iron on the part where zino had been used. Manufacturer.