Ship Research

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

157

Date Released

30 Dec 1957

Date recorded

25 Nov 1957

Length of issue (in feet)

756

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Ship Research
2. 2Doctors’ Hobbies
3. 3Elegant Tramp

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 3

Summary

Pathe synopsis: For an adult version of playing with boats in the bath, we visit St Albans, Hertfordshire, where reseasrch is carried out [at the Vickers Armstrong expermental tank] on behalf of the British Shipbuilding Research Association. The ‘bath’ is 440 ft. long and the model ships are 15 ft. scale models of the real things, specially built for testing and research purposes. Ingenious machines calculate the stresses and stsrains encountered in different sea conditions - simulated by a wave-maker.

Keywords

Ships and boats; Science and technology

Locations

St Albans; England; Hertfordshire

Written sources

Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards   Used for synopsis

Credits:

Commentator

David De Keyser

Length of story (in feet)

207

Story extras:

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