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Late 1800's / Early 1900's Cylindrical Ship
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Author:  ONI-Defense [ August 19th, 2014, 8:38 pm ]
Post subject:  Late 1800's / Early 1900's Cylindrical Ship
After a 2 year absence I've decided to return to drawing ships here on SB. One such ship that's been on my mind lately is an obscure design I saw in a book many years ago but have been able to find. From what I recall, the ship was an odd and failed attempt to reduce seasickness for passengers by having a cylindrical structure containing the passenger cabins and amenities that would counter rotate along the roll axis.

I haven't been able to locate any references or images online and hope someone else may have better luck tracking down the odd vessel.

I've included a quick cross section drawing of the ship.
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I did manage to find several drawings of B.T. Babbitt's rotary engine vessel which is another ship I plan on drawing.
Author:  eswube [ August 19th, 2014, 9:06 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Late 1800's / Early 1900's Cylindrical Ship
I remember reading about that ship in one old Polish book by Jan Piwowoński, titled: Niezwykłe Okręty ("Unusual/Amazing Ships"), but I don't think there were any useful reference drawings there, besides a similar cross-section like one You've made. I don't have that book here, but I'll try in next days to check if there's some way to get some scans of relevant pages.
Author:  ONI-Defense [ August 19th, 2014, 9:35 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Late 1800's / Early 1900's Cylindrical Ship
Scans would help me a lot even if the only image(s) are cross sections, especially if the book also contains the name of the ship or its designer. :)
Author:  Bombhead [ August 19th, 2014, 9:54 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Late 1800's / Early 1900's Cylindrical Ship
This sounds like an interesting idea. It would be good to see a standard SB profile too, even if you had to resort to making it up as you went along. :geek:
Author:  acelanceloet [ August 19th, 2014, 10:01 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Late 1800's / Early 1900's Cylindrical Ship
IIRC, this was build but was horrible for the passengers. the passenger compartment was then repurposed and the ship rebuild.
mind you, that is what I remember reading 10 years ago. I know exactly in which book, but it was a library book so I don't have acces to it right now.
Author:  heuhen [ August 19th, 2014, 10:14 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Late 1800's / Early 1900's Cylindrical Ship
There is an yacht, can't remember it's name, but it had a gyro stabilized master cabin. Not totally like the drawing above but more a system mounted on multiple cylinder's.
Author:  ONI-Defense [ August 19th, 2014, 11:18 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Late 1800's / Early 1900's Cylindrical Ship
If I can't obtain a side profile I'll still attempt it based on guess work.
Author:  Rodondo [ August 20th, 2014, 2:05 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Late 1800's / Early 1900's Cylindrical Ship
I have seen such a design, probably a few variants, as I'm moving It's boxed up but I will have a look when I can
Author:  eswube [ August 20th, 2014, 7:36 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Late 1800's / Early 1900's Cylindrical Ship
Ship's name was SS Bessemer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Bessemer

And here are promised scans. I hope they will be of some use.

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Source: Jan Piwowoński, Niezwykłe Okręty, Warszawa 1977, pp. 162-164.
Author:  ONI-Defense [ August 20th, 2014, 8:18 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Late 1800's / Early 1900's Cylindrical Ship
Thanks eswube, I really appreciate it. Knowing the ship's name will hopefully allow me to find more images and information to use along with the scans. :D
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