PREVENTION OF SEASICKNESS.
_—* COSTLY DEVICES FOR NEW SHIPS. (Received March 2nd, 9.10 p.m.) LONDON, March 2. <■ The "Daily Telegraph" says: To prevent sea-sickness, three gyroscopic stabilisers,, costing .£200,000, have been added to the ocean liner Conti di Savoia, which the Italian Lloyd 1 Sabaudd' is -building. It is claimed i that the vessel', will not- roll, more than five degrees, however stormy the sea. Each; stabiliser weighs 100 tons, and is driven by a motor of S6O horse-power, the cost of running being £l2 per day. The'ltalian super-liner Bex will also have stabilisers, while the 78,000 tons Gunarder which ia being built at Clydes* dale will have special anti-rolling doi vic?s.
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20176, 3 March 1931, Page 9
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