Patent ID: 6893304

Claim:
A course-holding, high-speed, sea-going ship comprising a hull designed to hold payloads including passengers, two rotatable rudder propellers arranged gondola-like under the hull and which are supplied with power by a motor/generator drive unit arranged in the hull of the ship, wherein the hull has a bottom which rises over a small angle toward the hull's two sides, and the hull's front part is designed to stabilize the ship's course and movement and terminates under water in an elongated bow section formed with a bulb, and further comprising a flow-guiding element arranged upstream of each rudder propeller, said flow-guiding element terminating in a hook-shaped end in the longitudinal direction, said element's design being matched to a specific type of ship, and which has an outgoing flow characteristic which results in a decelerated flow against the rudder propeller.