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Show I UNSTABLE SHIP GOES DOWN. Unsinkable, yet sunk. That is the ;cnd of the story of the Lucia, the unsinkable un-sinkable ship. t For a time the promise was held out that the Lucia was to solve the (biggest problem of, the submarine warl $With buoyancy boxes occupying a big Percentage of all available cargo space, the ship was to proceed across the Atlantic At-lantic and defy the U-boats. 5 The news today is that ihe challenge chal-lenge was accepted and the vessel lias gone to the bottom. Those best informed on submarine warfare, and the difficulties of transportation trans-portation through the danger zone, never accepted the Lucia as worthy of duplication. Even though found to be unsinkable ,the ship's carrying capacity capac-ity was so reduced that, if all allied - fch.pping was similarly treated, the loss in cargo tonnage "would bo greater great-er than could be Inflicted by two years, of the most intensive U-boat warfare. |