New Britain herald., 1928-01-30
SPEED LIKELY. TO
 RIVAL SHIP BULK
Both Types of Vessels Planned
 for Atlantic

New Ork, Jan. SO ~-Speeu ana bulk may be rivals in the passenger steamship lanes of the Atlantic ocean between New York and liv- crpool with the next few years.
 Gigantic ocean liners, 1000 feet long and with 60,0O0 tonnage, prob ably will carry the bulk Of passen- gers and freight. Smaller, but swifter ships are planned to carry fewer passengers, but much Of the express freight and mail. They would make the voyage in four days fiat and save 20 hours or more in mail deliveries. as we'll as paasen- ger sailing and arrival, by liberating and receiving airplanes when 500 miles, or a days sailing, from any port.
 The 1,00o-footers appear to be nearing reality with reliable re- ports that both the White Star and Cunard lines have placed orders for their construction. The American Brown-Boveri Electric Corporation hopes to reestabiish the Amerioln flag on the high seas by placing 10 of the "four-day liners" in service within the next three years.
 Laurence R. Wilder, chairman of the shipbuilding division of the Corporation, has announced the for mation of the Trans oceanic Corpo- ration. to have a capitalization of 50.000,000. Mir. Wilder has asked the United States shipping board for hearing January 24 to submit a proposal for loan of t90.0OO,0 900, approximately 75 per cent of the cost of six of the new liners.
 Germany's colors will fly from the North German Lloyd's 46,o0o,- ton Bremen" and Europa" now being built for use by 1929.
 While some designers fear the 1,000-footers may find difficulty in spanning with keel virtually unsup- ported the 500 feet between the At lantic's wave crests, others point out that the addition of only 46 feet to structural design already found satisfactory in the Majestic" larg- est steamship ill the world, presents no great problem.
 It is not expected they will great ly surpass her sustained e5-knot speed nor better her regular run- ming time of five days and 10 hours for the New York to Liverpool voy- age, but they undoubtedly will re- Quire the immediate construction of 1,l00-foot piers, a length neither port at present provides. They probably will to degree exceed the "Majestic's" capacity of 1000 pas- sengers and considerable freight.
 The proposed "four-day liners" in size the new Ger man ships, but would surpass them in speed at least by seven knots. Tentative plans call for a length not far below 300 feet, beam of 80 feet 3l.0oO tonnage and a sustain ed speed of 3S knots through use of a propulsion system combining the advantages of the Diesel engine and turbo-electric drive to four propel- lers.
 Crew requirements are reduced to one-third that of present passen- ger liners and fuel expenditure to one-half, while the ships. sailing daily from each port with limited cargoes of express freight and mail, would make 37 trips year as com- pared with the present average of 14.
 Four hundred of the 500 passen- gers are to be accommodated in sin gle and double staterooms and the others in two-berth cabins at rates no greater than the present, due to the reduced travel time. Mail and passenger planes would land and take off from a deck running the entire length of the ships and hav- ing elevator connection with 8 be- low-deck hangar" for servicing and storage. In event of war the ships, normally not unlike the new air plane carriers Lexington" and Saratoga" in appearance, could be converted into that type of war ves- sel within an estimated 72 hours.