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...name was the Trieste, after the troubled city whose funds helped build her, and she was about the strangest craft to sail the Tyrrhenian Sea since the time of Ulysses. Her skipper was an adventurer of 69 (Ulysses would have liked that), and her destination was one that Ulysses would have envied. The Trieste headed last week for the bottom of the sea, into the dark Tyrrhenian Trench to the west of southern Italy, where no ship steered by living men had ever gone before...
...Trieste is Professor Auguste Piccard's newest "bathyscaphe."* On the surface she looks vaguely like a ship, but she is really an underwater balloon designed to sail the depths of the sea just as a blimp navigates the air. Her crew compartment is a forged and welded steel sphere about 8 ft. in diameter with walls 3½ in. thick. This is the only part designed to resist the enormous pressure of the deep sea. It hangs below a "floater": a submarine-shaped hull of thin steel about 60 feet long and filled with 22,000 gallons of gasoline...
...children, grownups will probably like it too. Its ambition is "to wake children up, open some windows, let in some fresh air, and establish values for them." Actor Burgess Meredith, in a friendly, easygoing manner, takes the kids on a variety of jaunts which have already included a sail down the Mississippi with Huckleberry Finn (with Boxer Sugar Ray Robinson playing Jim, the slave), a visit to Harry Truman's Kansas City office (for a chat about the Constitution), a tour of Associated Press headquarters and practice sessions with sports heroes. Excursion (no sponsor so far) succeeds in being...
Here is the story of the Preussen, the great German five-master, "without a doubt the greatest sailing-ship the world has seen...a supership, a swift giantess among all sailing-ships, the ultimate expression of deepwater Sail." When all of her 30 square-sails were stretched, she presented 60,000 square feet of canvas to the wind...
Partisans of the American clippers may be surprised to find that the Germans produced not only the greatest ships but some of the greatest captains as well. To Villiers, once a skipper in sail himself and not easily given to hero worship, the giant of them all was Robert Hilgendorf, the "Devil of Hamburg." No one ever equaled his skill at rounding the Horn, and there were plenty of sailing men who believed that he could control the winds with black magic. Hilgendorf himself did not care to press his skill; he quit at an early 50 to take...