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Show ! STRONGEST SHIPS BEING MADE STRONGER There is no such thing as an un-) un-) jslnkable ship 'So passes a modern I myth of the sea. Mya 'he World, llsrut st what cost io human B ji I nas the illusion been shattered '1 j This comment 1- based on the fact I that near the fi, it anniversary of the J l ! destruction of th'- Titanic are two BBBII vnt8 8tronSl.v reflective of the in-llfliience in-llfliience of the disar-ter for stronger, BJraore powerful ships. The hnge Vaderland. launched last I j I FYlday at Hamburg, will carry eiehty- Jthree lifeboats, and Beventi of thes" glean be launched from either side of I If the ship and can accommodate the jiwhole capacity of the vessel In hu-'" hu-'" man freight o list of the ship can I J put out of commission half the boats. ' Tho reconstructed Op mPiC starts lion Its first voyage with an outer shell ' to take the force and damage of such m glancing blow as wrecked the Tl-I Tl-I panic and leave an inner shell to keep F her afloat It was held unsinkable Sjbefore this reconstruct'on It Is now mailed unsinkable. hm ',-,-r'."? more Jlthjn double its old number oflife-I oflife-I boats in deference to the truth of Bitter experience, as against the i claims of marine architects." |