NO MORE SEA-SICKNESS.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 September 1920, Page 6

NO MORE SEA-SICKNESS.

All kinds of attempts to prevent ships from rolling have been tried, hundreds of inventors have designed non-rolling ships; but seasickness still remains one of the inevitable miseries of a sea trip in rough weather. But it was announced recently (says the Children's Newspaper), at the Institution of Naval Architects, that a new gyroscope had proved so successful that a large ship can be kept so steady that it only rolls through two degrees, or 110 more than a cur inclines when rounding a sharp bend. Vessels of as' much as 10,000 tons displacement have been fitted with this qjToscopc, and through the wonderful steadiness of the ship it maintains a greater speed. Also, the ship is much drier in rough weather, as the waves do not break over it to anything like the usual extent. Few of us know how much animals suffer, as well as human beings, in rough weather at sea, and this nitty now be prevented. To keep a ship of 10,000 tons steady the whole weight of the new Sperry gyroscope is only 100 tons, or one ton in a 100 tons of the ship.