TO RESIST SUBMARINES.
A PROMISING INVENTION. A promising invention has been devised by Captain Coll McDonald, marine superintendent at Dnnedin, for the Union Steam Ship Company, with the assistance of Mr. Robert Constable, the company's naval architect. It is a new method of ship construction, which will, it is claimed, make a ve'sscl to withstand several shots from a torpedo before she could be sunk, and gives a ihargiu of 50 to CO prr cent safety to those on board such vessels by enabling them to leave at leisure in the ship's boats or be rescued by other vessels. Besides this, the probability would be that aid would be received before a submarine could launch a second torpedo. In any case, the operation of sinking would be very costly to the enemy.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19180327.2.38
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, 27 March 1918, Page 8
Word count
Tapeke kupu
132TO RESIST SUBMARINES. Taranaki Daily News, 27 March 1918, Page 8
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in