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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1936.

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ANGLO-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP

Plans have already been com- pleted for her sister ship, con- will (17- struction of which mence shortly.

There are three schools of thought. One demands au al- AB- most identical sister ship. other calls for several much but smaller, equally speedy

vastly cheaper 30,000 tonners.

as sleek à surface to air and water as a blunt-nose shark." Models made last year:" right, the Normandie; left, what the future holds,

OR FASTER?

By

A. P.

Luscombe Whyte

And the "left wing" of the tinued financial success of the

“And we must couple this

Although there may be

no shipbuilding world insists upon 25,000 to 30,000 craft of the with fares so cheap that the prospect of a definite Anglo-something revolutionary in ship Georgic and Manhattan type,

design, related to the Queen Mary as the Fei Expressés are to the 2.06 to Fanling.

more

The enclosed. streamlined superstructure would save the vast amount of power necessary to overcome air-resistance when travelling fast. In past liners little attempt has been made to streamline, but when speeds of 40 or 50 m.p.h, are reached. wind-resistance becomes an im- portant factor.

moderately-paid oflice worker. Possibly the experia are op- will regard a holiday in America timistic, but they claim that as little

daring than a such a ship, driven by engines We can do, of the same horse power as the trip to Switzerland. "FOR the price of this only by building ships of an Queen Mary's, could travel at 50

one Queen Mary entirely new type,"

The case for and against the

super-liner is we could build three 25,000 conventional briefly put. The Ares say that logners," they said.

m.p.h, and carry ́ ́passengers neross the Atlantic for a fare of. £12-well below existing third- class rates.

Incidentally, the designers

in- in the American alliance, terests of world peace.

there have been many welcome indien- tions lately of a closer drawing together of the 1WO great

"which It is this school which has English-speaking nations. Evid-

a two-way service with ships of could be run at about, one- drawn up plans for a great new and which to streamlined liner with which it ence of this spirit was forth-equal tonnage, speed and luxury third the cost coming in the speech which Mr. is essential if Britain is not to gether would carry nearly twice is hoped the U.S. Government Robert W., Bingham, United lose traffic to France and Ger- s many passengers in sufficient will attempt to capture the say, a streamlined ship would luxury at two-thirds the fare. "little. man's" Atlantic fures, provide increased comfort. It Stafes Ambassador to Eugland, many.

Such ships would actually The ship would be of about would be affected far less by Idelivered at the Independence

The Noes deny that there is stimulate new traffic, and would 100.000 tons and carry 7,000 heavy winds and sea and would Day dinner in London. Britain 21 sufficient volume of wealthy

never be idle. In the slack passengers at a standard of be correspondingly steadier. and America. he said, had passengers for two such luxury season they could be sent on comfort little short of that in This plan has been urged by what one might call the pledged themselves by treaties liners, and point to the con- long-distance cruises to warm-to-day's first class quarters, ·

moderate extremists. But an never to engage in wars of ng-

It would resemble no other even more unconventional de- gression, and they meant to keep

from the real ex- The third school states em- ship which has ever sailed the sign comes

Completely enclosed tremists. "The vast energy phatically that the day of the oceans, we say that." said the Ambassador,

conventional liner is finished, and streamlined. there would wasted by a ship in pushing "woe to any nation that is mad July was the hundredth The Queen Mary is, or should be no open decks, funnels, side the water increases out of

all proportion to the speed, enough to imagine that we are leseph Chamberlain, and in treat be, the last ship built according masts, portholes, outside life- they say. "When the Nor- a movement. headed by to a trhnique which has varied bouts or protuberances of any mandie is making 24 knots she mere supine pacifists.". After fr. 1 S. Amery, commemorated commenting on the fact that the

event by a sustained can only in detail since the launch- kind to trap the wind. It would burns 21 tons of coal

present as sleek a surface to air hour. But, increase her speed Britain and the United States paige to support the ideals and ing of the first screw vessel.

and water 12 AL

blunt-nose by only 7 knots, and consump- mission of the British Empire)

"We can bring prosperity to

tion doubles. Imagine what shark. increasing co-operation;

she would consume at 40

migration, in but had, unfortunately, so

far foreign polley. A fund, has been

"To make fast ocean travel. failed. Mr. Bingon touched a raised and workers are unlisted. Passengers. We must provide hull forms, it is said, resistance

The co-operation of leader's in in Sullicient speed to enable the to the ship's passage could be economic, we must take a lesson point bearing on the naval policies dustry and agriculture was ob- fortnight-holiday man to spend cut down by one-third. Speed from the racing motor-boat

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NOTES OF THE DAY

niversary of the

Britain,

had sought to lead the world in through

birth of Mr.!

waters.".

paths of peace and disarmament, between its members in trade, in the Atlantic run only by at-

defence

In Great

azed

intracting a vast crowd of new

By abandoning

Britain and nine or ten days in the States, would leap.

of the two countries, when he re-tained marked that "I shall expect this throughout the overseas Empire, It was hoped that the move would help in solving the unemployment! Imperial problem, and ad strength and unity.

nation and my own to match gun with gin, ship with ship, plane with plane. and man with man,

tion.

course,

The late Mr. Joseph Chamba-

in the protection of our countries Jain was one of the most domin- and our homes." Here we see ant political figures of Brit/sh evidence of the spirit of co-opera-half-century. He was a man of political history during the last. There is no question, of immense spirit, of boundless of Britain and America courage and of masterful enérgy, His great campaign for Imperial engaging in naval rivalry for fear Preference, which has borne such of any clash between the two mnotable fruits, will not readily be forgotten. His vision in this res- tions, That is a contingency act has been shown to be attain which never need be feared.. The able. In the task he set himself

he developed the idea of Imperial! ham's words is that Britain and inspiration. in some measure at basic thought behind Mr. Bing- Unity, and undoubtedly gave the the United States are determined least, for the Dominions in the Great War. It may be recalled to arm themselves adequately for that it was a National Govern- the purposes of defence, and there ment in Great Britain that finally

adopted the Chamberlain econo is an implication that such determic policy and set the Motherland mination means that the increased on the high road to prosperity

after years of depression. trength which is to be built up will constitute an intimation

to others that the two nations too much to say that by co-operat *THE MAN WITH THE HARP?

[are prepared to follow aing to the fullest extent possible WORLD-WIDE ADVENTURER, like policy when the ideals for as and when world crises threaten, which they stand are in any way Britain and the United Statos can MUSICIAN AND PROSPECTOR threatened. There are, as we exercise an inestimable influence;

AT

LANE, CRAWFORD'S

have observed, reasons why there steadying in its effects and gen- can be nothing in the nature of erally beneficial to the whole a cut-and-dried Anglo-Amerienn world. There is, happily, ample alliance, but the value of in-evidence that this represents the creased friendship between the policy of the two nations; and two nations, coupled with their that is a circumstance, in these identity of outlook on the safe-days of unrest and tension, which guarding of world peace, cannot gives cause for mutual satisfac- be over-stressed. It is, indeed, not-tion-and--thanksgiving..

.

traditional knots ..

SIDE GLANCES

By George Clark

"The way mother and daddy carry on, you'd think they

never had seen a baby before,

every***

which moves not through,but over the water. Its hull is so "stepped' that at speed it rises out of the sea, cutting down resistance and boosting speed."

SOME years ago plans were prepared to the order of a French company for a motor-driven, 120-foot ship, which would carry 120 passen- gers across the Atlantic. at 60 m.p.h. Driven by 4,000 h.p. engines, and costing only £25;- 000 each, these little ships would skim over the waves instead of ploughing through them.

Naturally such midgets could. Atlantic not brave the North rollers, but advanced designers state that the “stepped" prin- · ciple might be modified and applied to the construction of fairly large ships.

When travelling fast in calm weather the shape of their hulls would tend to decrease their draught considerably and ́so eut down, the resistance of the sca by one-half or more, Ultra- light construction would be essential, but modern advances in metals and design have made' that possible..

These liners would be so rapid (It is stated) that they could sail round, most storms, 'but if one were caught by heavy seas it could reduce speed and wallow along in, the ordinary way. In flat weather it woulit skim along at 50 m.p.h.