ii r l. 1914 I 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



13 



Rubber Aboard the Fighting Fleet. 



THE rubber markets are going to be sorely taxed 

 to meet the needs "i' the battling navies of the world and 



to make up the losses incident to warfare afloat, The 

 public at large does i\\ it, bm this material of nature's 



iding plays a 

 large part in 

 making the man- 

 V-war the ein 

 cient fighting ma- 

 chine it is todaj 

 [ n dee d, if one 



to reduce 

 its vai i< '1 u 

 a ques t i o n of 

 pounds, every 

 first-class dread- 

 nought W o u 1 (1 



its indebt- 

 e il n e s s to the 

 measure of many 



The more ioi- 

 midable indi a 

 rubber 



the battle 



craft the further 



that vessel goes 



1 maintain- 



i ■ 



w h e n that be- 



,-omes impossibl T Cruisers Which 



the better can 



she safeguard the 



home country and its industries England with her fleet has 



made it reasonablj safe for Iter merchant craft to maintain their 



trade routes with but little fear of hostile interference, and it is 



Have Led 

 on Shipboard. 



isioning being to restrict tin 

 injuries to narrow arias or moderate spaces. There is an outer 

 bottom and an inner bottom, and the interval between is <i' 



into small compartment! 



susceptible of in- 

 >n. Thi~ in- 



sarj in order that 



can be watched 

 lest rust eat away 



1 h e protecting 

 paint and corrode 

 the plates to dan- 



■ 

 Hundred 

 manholes lead 

 into these subdi- 



each there is a 

 watertight plate 

 ver, made 

 ij em- 

 ploying gaskets 

 nr collars of the 

 best of rubber 

 packing regain, 

 ■ in a larger scale, 

 the ship i^ par- 

 titioned ■ " 

 high and wide 

 bulkheads of 

 steel, and in or- 

 der to facilitate intercommunication between these active cen- 

 ters foi in these spaces are placed engines and boilers ana 

 auxiliaries in different compartments of their own — there are 



g ht by X . !.. Stcbbin 



One of the Largest Dreadnoughts. 



doubtful if her dreadnoughts and her battle cruisers could do sliding or swinging doors, depending upon the pos 

 this without the helpful service of rubber in manifold directions. when closed, should tely watertight. Tl not 



The modern man-o'-wat ?antic steel honeycomb— the be watertight, in fact •■ made watertight 



