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...good rotor ship Buckau, with her whirling iron towers, came to anchor in Leith harbor. She had spent approximately six days at sea, bearing a cargo from Danzig via the Kiel Canal?about three days to Kiel and three days from Kiel to Leith. Her time was not good ?tramp steamers make it in about two-thirds the time?but, during the entire voyage, she encountered storm and head winds that put her to a severe test. Moreover, during a good part of the voyage, she used her auxiliary Diesel engine...
Anton Flettner's Rotor Ship (TiME, Nov. 17)?or Sailless Ship, as it is more commonly called?has set the scientific world agog. Early reports were entirely misleading. There is no question of capturing the energy of the wind by means of a windmill and transmitting this energy in electrical fashion to an ordinary type of propeller. The invention is at once more simple in mechanism and more recondite in principle. Imagine the Flettner ship broadside to a natural wind, with its huge cylinders rotating in the same direction as the hands of a clock laid flat on deck...