A Ship With Three Keels.
The " Hodgetts Safety Ship " is the invention of Ml- J. F. Hodgetts, who was fov some years a professor in the Royal Naval College of Prus* sia. As a result of experiments in the Beckwith tank at the Royal Aquarium, where models of vessels with an ordinary hull and the Hodgetts hull respectively were tried against each other, it is claimed that a number of advantages are possessed by the new vessel. The speed is said to be increased 10 percent, the draught 10 per cent, less, and the carrying, capacity to be in excess of the ordinary ship. A remarkable degree of stability, owing to the form of the bottom ; great sensitiveness to the action of the helm, accounted for by the two streams of water passing under the hull on every side of the
rudder ; a lessened sitU'Wash ; and safety in grounding, owing to the possession of three keels, are other merit 3 for the invention. The ship is also said to form an excellent gun platform, with much diminished rolling.
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Manawatu Herald, 22 December 1894, Page 3
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178A Ship With Three Keels. Manawatu Herald, 22 December 1894, Page 3
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