THE WARSHIP OF THE FUTURE.
Professor Loswenthal, a German, thinks that the coming warship will be made of indiarubber. His idpa is to make the entire hull of rubber one foot in thickness, strengthened below the water-line by a light stofl frame. The vessel will be driven by tin orclinarv steam engine, and will have no masts, at the bow will be a projecting spar to which torpedoes will be affixed, and the entire crew, including the helmsman, will be on the lower deck out of the range of shot. Whsn a cannon ball strikes the india-rubber ship it will pass directly through it and above the heads of the crew, and the hole made by it
will instantly close. Paying no attention to such futile attacks, the indiarubber vessel will steam towards her adversary and explode her torpedo. The doomed Vessel will instaMbly sink, while her elastic destroyer will be driven hundreds of yards backward by the reCoil following the explosion. " Such a vessel, says the inventor, would destroy all the navies of the world, and after her work was done she could be made as strong as ever with the aid of two or three bottles of cement.
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Kumara Times, Issue 1160, 17 June 1880, Page 3
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