Show I UNSINKABLE UNSINKABLE SHIP SHIP DEFIES 11 SUBMARINE MAIDEN VOYAGE OF VESSEL WHICH MAY SOLVE SUBMARINE PROBLEM BEING PLANNED Without Convoy and as an can Open Challenge Challenge Chal Chal- lenge to the Germans the Lucia Will Endeavor to Make Trip AcrosS Across the Atlantic non sinkable Washington The ton The The first sea-going sea ship the Lucia achievement of American genius will load this tills week and leave for Europe She will be without convoy at nt any stage of the vo voyage She goes as an nn open challenge challenge chal chal- lenge to the German submarines to prove plO that she Is Invulnerable No other test has been made or orwill willbe will trill willbe be made of the efficacy of her multIplicity multiplicity multiplicity multi multI- of tight air and watertight water cells Her Tier trial trip and maiden VO voy voyage voyage n age e will be a n deli to the boats U-boats or the Ole most practical test possible of their marksmanship It lies has been intended ed to make a n test of the Lucia lu In dl drydock dock but It was learned Sun Sunday a from John A. A Donald vice president nt of the emer emergency fleet corporation and shipping board commIssIoner commissioner commissioner com com- missioner that the dr drydock test had been aban abandoned for drastic trial in the tho proving pro grounds of the danger dauger zone Inventor to Oversee Loading William P. P Donnelly Donnell marine engineer engi engl veer neer of New York and inventor hi of the tIle sinkable non construction of the thc Lucia will viii have complete charge of the loadIng load load- Ing lag of the vessel Although the Lucia is fitted with nith l 1000 of the water an anair and d air tight cells permanently r attached to I Itle the tle frames frame s and deck eck beams and other othe r uY of f tile the Vessel e sel about 15 to to 20 O per pel cent of the cargo space ce must be packed with additional numbers o of f these buo buoyant ant boxes Mr 11 Donnelly Donnell personally will sUl supervise enL e this this final linal phase of the safety equipment The Lucia a ton tour vessel essel l formerly formell formerly for mell merly belonging to Austria was requisitioned for the purpose and experiments expert ments were begun Only recently after about four months of test au and d trials the new equipment was com cos p te Although no actual tests of the safety safety safe safe- t ty of ot the Lucia from torpedoes ha has hns s been made the mathematical calculations calculi from small scale experiments sa says Mr l Donnelly are aie considered sufficient sufficient suf proof that even even- with a hole hol e forty feet long blown In blown in her side sh she e would remain safely i afi afloat at suppo supported ted by the honeycomb comb of cells |