Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1913-10-24 | Page 2 | Predicts New Type of Ship

PREDICTS NEW TYPE OF SHIP Waterplane, According to Writer, Is Forerunner of Change in Marine Architecture. The waterplane, I believe, is the forerunner of an entirely new kind of ocean-going ship. At present a ship's speed is checked by reason of the tremendous tre-mendous resistance offered to her passage pas-sage by the water. Now if we could produce a vessel thiit traveled on the top of the water I she would only have to overcome the resistance of the air, which is not nearly so powerful as water resistance. This is the kind of vessel which, I fancy, the waterplane foreshadows the ocean-going liner of the future. The ship of the future will probably be flat-bottomed, winged, and with a rudder-tail. She will sometimes rise above the waves, and at others travel along the top of the waters, but only touch them with her flat bottom. When a ship now travels at 23 knots she will in the days to come make 60 or perhaps even 70 knots, because she will skim, instead of being sunk in I expect, to see this type of vessel rake her appearance during the next twenty years. And when she has actually come into being a revolution will have been effected in transit and traveling facilities in comparison to which the introduction of steamship railways and motor cars will seem insignificant. in-significant. Exchange.