MODERN WIND-JAMMER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1905, 21 November 1918, Page 4

MODERN WIND-JAMMER.

Fpme eight years ago (he largest sailing ship in the world —the Breuss.cn — was driven ashore ' near Dover. For eight years she made .-om-e splendid runs between Cermany and Chili, and occasionally she doubled the Horn four times in the IF months.

"Wise people shoo!; their bonds and said (hat the day of the sailing vessel had passed with the wreck of the iT'esuueii. Doubtless it would have passed if everythin”' was altered. lluye steel ships were driven to the bottom in their hundreds, gradually the submarines got the upper hand, and then (o make good (heir losses allied and neutral countries stalled to build sailing ships.

The two difliculiies (hat faced the builders were carrying capacity and speed. .America with her vast supplies of petroleum and limber, solved tin.* first problem. The difficulty oi' speed was obviated by the introduction of auxiliary motor power.

Now the' yards, of America and Norway aye! and the yards of many an English seaport, too, resound to (he strokes of mighty hummers as they batten good oak and

The master stands in his shipyard 11 01 with the model, but by the vessel it.-.eli’, that “laughs at disaster." Old men in England are once more linding jobs as sailmakers, and the long forgotten chandlers 1 stores are coming back to their own. Tliirly-two in one month! Such is America's record for building sailing ships. Nor is Norway backward. She, too, is turning out ■«* . 1 . mighty five-masted full-rigged ships with powerful oil-engines. Soon the ports of Britain will be the scene of that “forest of masts’ so beloved of writers.

Weird and wonderful arc the new “wind-jammers,'’ with their camouflaged hulls, their tapering masts, their aggressively new sails, and their funnel in the stern. . Looked at from a business stand-

point, they may not be so successful as steamers, but what more picturesque object is there than a ‘Viml-jammor’-’ muter full canvas, bowling along as she ‘'beats in, boats up from southerly