CONCRETE SHIPS
Of REVOLUTIONARY DESIGN PROPOSED BY AUSTRALIAN ENGINEER. IMPORTANT ADVANTAGES CLAIMED. (Special P.A. Correspondent.) (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The construction in Australia of reinforced concrete ships, built to a revolutionary design, has been urged, by an Australian structural engineer, Mr E. Gilles Stone, formerly chief designing engineer for the Sydney Harbour Trust. Mr Stone contemplates the building of large numbers of a semi-submerged type of freighter, resembling in some respects a giant submarine. Such a vessel, .he maintains, travelling almost awash and cunningly camouflaged, would not be readily visible from the air and would be less vulnerable to torpedo attack than any ship now afloat. Concrete ships of 4,000- tons, with a speed of eighteen krtots, could, he estimates, be constructed in Australia in half the time it takes to build a steel ship, and at a quarter of the coast. “My design is such a radical departure from the conventional steel ship," design.” states Mr Stone, “that all the old arguments against the practicability of the concrete ship are put out of cost.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 July 1942, Page 4
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179CONCRETE SHIPS Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 July 1942, Page 4
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