NO SEASICKNESS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 October 1931, Page 4

NO SEASICKNESS

POSITIVE GUARANTEE. QUALITIES OF GIANT LINER. LONDON, August 21. A positive guarantee against seasickness will he given to passengers in the new giant Cunarder, the largest liner in the world, which is under construction on the Clyde. The most nervous of sailors will walk aboard her without a thought of green faces, restless nights of agony, or appalling days spent hanging over the taffrail. The worst sailors in the world will he able to eat salmon mayonnaise and ice cream in the midst of one of the Atlantic’s most tempestuous gales. Science has defeated the scourge of the sea. ‘‘No. 534,” as the giant liner - is ait present called, wall be unable to pitch or ro 1 !. A secret device, upon, which engineers have worked for years and which has been tested in scores of artificial gale-swept seas, produced in special experimental tanks, will be fitted tot the giant ship. By means of this invention, which works on the gyroscopic principle, the steadiness of the ve.ssell is assured, and she will lie kept on an even keel in the* roughest of seas. The apparatus which costs £200,000 weighs more than three hundred, tons Anyone sitting the restaurant or in the smoke-room of the liner will have to use all his imagination to realise. , that, he is on hoard ship. All thoughts! of mal-de-mer will be banished. The hows are also designed to assist the mechanical device in pretenting any trace of rolling. Experiments lasting many months have proved that the decks of the liner will remain spotlessly dry, even when she is travelling at her top speed of thirty-five knots in the dirtiest of weather.