The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-23
TO CROSS OCEAN
IN SIXTY HOURS
A NEW SHIP HAS BEEN IN
VENTED IN HOBoKEN..
Captain Flindt Says the Germans Are
After Tits Advantage Lies in the
Bottom of the Hull and in the Pecu-
liar Position of the PropelIers.
New York World.

A transatlantic trip in sixty hours
this is the promise OF a Hobokerl 81 (
After twelve years OF hard work
and an expenditure of $4,000, Carl
j. FL. Flindt, past sea captain and
present tugboat master, has COM
pleted the invention of a boat that
he says will cut the fastest time be-
tween New York and Liverpool all
most in thirds.
1--WE got the biggest thing in the
world" says this bluff ex-sea captain
Il wouldn't trade with Mr.. Marconi.
Already I've been offered $4,000, 900
for it by German shipbuilders. and it
will 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
I know Nixon and I know the Cramps
and I 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 1t isn't
question Of machinery at all. It's
a question of hull and propeller.
began by trying to increase the speed I
by changing the propeller, and after
I'd got it down nearly half in that
way, I accidentally hit upon an inn
proved bottom, based upon the idea
ol Iue nun Oh q caCdH1aidll, anu Illdl
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 I got up to
| working models, I had them big
enough to hold two, three, ten men.
| This one, which I've named 'Tri-s
umph,' is 73-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
much like a schooner with the masts
cut down, for Captain Flint hasn't
paid any attention to decks and cabins
and saloons. The Triumph doesn't
even show a smokestack, for she is to
| be run up and down the river and
around the bay on trial with gasolene
for fuel.
IT 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 I care. All !
/ have anything to do with is the hull,
and I 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.
4 '"You see, the hull is divided in
three sections, running lengthW1se,
with deep grooves between. Instead
of ploughing the water, as the orr
binary hull does, having tons of re-
sistance to overcome, these grooves
allow the water to pass right thru the
Il hull, and the resistance is reduced to
I minimum. Then [ propose to have
the propellers, three in number, in
the forward part Of the hull, instead
Of at the. stern.
), t"The propellers, which were my
!: first invention, are made with a large
. hoop instead of a small one. Those
r in use at present have a. small diam
; eter and fit close toy5the shaft, and
: this requires a tremendous power to
3 overcome the resistance to the propel-
Ter blades; but with a large hoop
? there Is less resistance, and again the
speed is increased. BY placing one
2 on the central ridge of the hull, and
one on each Of the outer ridges, and
e allB Of them where they can work II
S the smooth, undisturbed water under
e the hull, there is an increase Of power
!. an increase of speed, and a conse-
t uuent saving Of time and cost Of fuel
y If a liner like the Deutschland We're
fitted with a hull and propellers like
e. these, she would cross the ocean II
4 exactly one-half the time she does
: now with a saving Of 30 per cent FOL
II fuel" va