FISH-SHAPED ZEPPELIN

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2837, 31 July 1916, Page 10

FISH-SHAPED ZEPPELIN

AIE TOfiPEDOES WITH NINE MILES , IUNGE. Tho Butch "Nieuwe Courant". published from it correspondent in Zurich a detailed description of the newly-completed "super-Zeppelin", whicli has just been making trial trips over the heads of tho inhabitants of the shores of Lako Constance. Tho new airship, it is said, is specially designed for use against ships at sea. It differs materially iu dimensions and construction, from previous Zeppelins. It is fish-shaped and of great length in proportion to its diameter. It has twenty-four Iwllonets within the outer envelope and four gondolas, and can carry a crew of from thirty to forty men and an enormous cjuan'titv of bombs. The motors can develop from 3000 to 4000 horse-power, giving a maximum speed of 58 miles an hour. Tho steering apparatus, which differs from that of the other Zeppelins, is so perfected that tho ship can turn on its own axis ill half a minute, a material advantage in manoeuvring over vessels provided with anti-aircraft guns. At the sides of tho envelope platforms are built on which to place small guns. The airship will carry "air torpedoes" of a kind designed by a Swedish inventor, 'Major i Jungc, wlncji can b« fired a distance of nine miles. They each contain 1201b. ofi explosives— "Daily Mail."