Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1906-01-06

battle which. never ends, man has dis
played much ingenuity. While realiE.
ing that the foe will always be too
strong for him, he never relaxes his
efforts to make ocean voyaging as free
from danger as possible. Captain j.
NJ. Donvig, a Norwegian shipmaster,
has invented floating globe which has
undergone repeated tests successfully.
This globe, capable of holding sixteen
persons, may be amply proyisloned.
watered and supplied with fresh air.
II is claimed to be absolutely non.
sinkable. floating on the surface of the
widest sea. In his globe Captain Don.
Wig has utilized the principle of the
hollow ball that floats readily upon the
water.
The shell is constructed of steel and
is braced sufficiently to make II strong
enough to withstand the battering OF
angry waves, or even pounding upon
rocks or the shore. 1t is so construct.
ed that the part intended to be the tor
will always noat uppermost In part
the ballast consists Of two large tanks,
each capable IT holding $50 gallons OF
fresh water. Seats for passengers that
encircle the interior are built over
lockers, in which a considerable guam.
tity Of food may be stored.
In the top of the globe Is a twelve
inch ventilating pipe, which may be
raised to a height Of five feet or low.
cred so as to be flush with the outer
surface of the globe. There are three
manholes by which a passenger may
enter or leave the globe, and through
small glass portfolios the outer sur.
roundings of the globe may he OBJ
served. The interior contains toilet ac
Commodation and cooking appliances,
so that, with fresh water, warm food
and dry, II somewhat cramped quar-.
ters castaways may manage to pass
the time In more or less comfort un.
I'll rescued or the globe drifts ashore.
Completely fitted out and containing
sixteen persons, the lifesayer draws
twenty.three inches Of water.
When caught in a collision. passen.
gers and crew of ship have only to
climb into life-saying globes, close the
manholes, and, without fear. wait for
their vessel to sink. No matter how
great the suction, Captain Donyig as
serts the globes will bob to the sur.
face serenity and right side up.
BY displaying a flag by day and dis.
charging rockets at night he would ex.
pect to be picked up without great de.
lay, unless the wreck occurred far out
Of the usual lines OF sea travel.
A marine engineer Of neighboring
nation-Captaih Engelhardt OF Den.
mark-has just invented a collapsible.
non.sinkable llfeboat, which, when not
in use, may be folded and slowed away
in much less space than Is required
for the ordinary boats aboard a ship.
The operation of extending or opening
II Is very simple, requiring only a few
moments. A boat OF such type, TWEEN.
ty feet long. even when filed with
water. will, II Is asserted, sustain more
than 1000 pounds, and one twenty-six
feet long will float 5000 pounds.
The great buoyancy Of Captain En-.
Gelhardt's craft is due to the fact that
its bottom and fender are filled with
kapok, the product OF a plant that
grows in Java and Sumatra. II will
sustain from thirty 10 thirty.fiye times
Its own weight In water-seven and a
half times the buoyancy OF cork.
When not in use the superstructure
Of the boat may be folded down. When
erect the superstructure is surrounded
by fender, also filed with kapok In
water.tight cushions. In extending the
boat the oars are released. an oval.
shaped thwart supplied with cross
thwarts slides into position and stanch.
ions and other parts drop into their
places automatically. The mechanism
is simple and not easily put out OF or.
der. .......
II is asserted that this boat would be
plugs lost and its bottom crushed. BE
ing less than a foot In depth when
folded, II may easily be slowed. Heavy
seas are not likely to injure II. Fur.
thermore, II Is always ready. Should
a vessel with such an equipment sink
suddenly, the life boats would float az
RATS and still support their full com
plement of passengers.
Captain Englehardt's boat is very
easy to launch. II the davits are
Jammed, 1t may be thrown overheard
bodily, and be manned and extended
later while In the water. Its construc,
ton Is such that It cannot capsize, even
II all the passengers 1t will hold are
crowded against one rail.
An interesting development of the
gasoline motor has taken place in this
country, where It has been applied to
n lifeboat for the use of regular life
saving stations,
The motor Is intended to relieve the
crew from the arduous labor entailed
in approaching a wreck against heavy
seas and head winds. Sometimes life
savers and those whom they are en-
deayoring to rescue meet death in the
surf because the men have been eX