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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 85, 5 January 1920, Page 8

SHIPS WITHOUT RIVETS. An exneriinentnl ship, in wbidi the ure of rivets has been entirely dispensed • with, in now nearly ready for launching, silyH "Lloyd's Beuislcv of Shipping.' Klces trio welding has been nfed throughout ils coiwlniction and Hie ship's behaviour i will bo oilrotully -watched by all interest- ". Ed in the now system of ronstnicliqn. Tho veesd is UCft. in length. Tho renort also refcra to tlio inyntcrions olleets i of oil caTBOCB on the nailing of fhips. H , line been etntcd Uiat fluid cargo™ tend to produce "elugifishiiees," and hlfo that ' veaaole oavrying oil in bull; arc nioro ' liable to driiff their anchors than vessels loaded with ordinary mi-rchnndire. In reirnrd to laihirc of rudder stonliH, it wi\s found thtt in some 12 or 13 en res the Venecia oari'lcd oil in bulk, and "it would apuear that undun bl.vcps had been ', brought on tho rudders." No reason, the '' report says, has yet iiocn discovored to account for those failures. Jli>scnr-:li t7.- ' pcrimcnU a.rt to ba onrtied out.