The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-19
WILL CROSS IN Sixty HOURS.
Claim Made by Carl j. H. Flindt for
Ship He Has Invented

| New York, July ia Transatlantic
trip in sixty hours-this is the promise
of a Hoboken man to the world at large
After twelve years of hard work and
an expenditure of So, 000 Carl j. H.
Flindt, past sea captain and present
tugboat master, has completed the in
vention of a boat that he says will cut
the fastest time between New York and
| Liverpool almost in thirds
I've got the biggest thing in the
world says the bluff ex-sea captain.
Il wouldn't trade with Mr.. Marconi.
Already I've been offered $40, O0O, 900 for
it by German shipbuilders, and it'll
make billions for them if I sell it,
| 'Oh, yes the Cramps say they have
a boat that will cross the ocean in three
days. It's Nixon'S boat. But 1 know
Nixon and / know the Cramps and
know their boat, and I'll say to them
their boat won't cross the ocean in
four days. Mine will do it in two and a
half. =.
They're working out the problem by
improved machinery, and it isn't a
question of machinery at all. It's a
question of hull and propeller. I be-
gan by trying to increase the speed by
changing the propeller, and after I'd
got it down nearly half in that way,
accidentally hit upon an improved bot
tom, based upon the idea of the hull of
a catamaran and that has cut it down
nearly half again.
This is the nineteenth model I've
made A dozen or SO of the first ones
I've given to the children to play
with. Then as 1 got up to working
models 1 had them big enough to hold
two, three, ten men. This one,
which I've named Triumph, is a 70
footer and will carry a hundred men,
and in two weeks she'll be ready for
her trial trip
The Triumph is lying out in the
North river now. and men are busy
putting in her machinery. To an or
binary landlubber she looks pretty
a wit octe
cut down, for Captain F'lindt hasn't
paid any attention to decks, and cab
ms, and saloons. ssa The Triumph
doesn't even show a smokestack, for
river and around the bay on trial with
gasoline for fuel. 3
Il don't care what kind of power
they use They can hitch mules to
her If they want to, and put a sky
scraper on top for all 1 care. All
have anything to do with is the hull,
and | can prove to anybody that the
speed is there.
Here's the whole secret of it," and
the captain picked up a little model
and turned it keel up. running his
hand lovingly along the triple hull.
You see, the hull is divided in three
sections, running lengthwise, with
deep grooves between. Instead of
blowing the water, as the ordinary
hull does, having tons of resistance to
overcome, these grooves allow the
and the resistance is reduced to a
minimum. Then l propose to have
the propelIers, three in number, in the
forward part of the hull, instead of
the stern.
The propellers. which were my
first invention, are made with a large
hoop instead of small one. Those in
use at present have a small diameter
and fit close to the shaft. and this re-
quireS a tremendous power to over
come the resistance to the propeller
blades; but with large hoop there is
less resistance, and again the speed is
increased. BY placing one on the CEN
trail ridge of the hull. and one on
each of the outer ridges, and ali of
tn EN- where they can work in the
smooth, undisturbed water under the |
hull, there is an increase of power, all
increase of speed, and a consequent |
saving of time and cost of fuel. If a |
liner like the Deutschland were fitted |
with a hull and propellers like these |
she would cross the ocean in exactly |
one-half the time she does now, with |
a saving of so per cent for fuel