This had been tried as an experiment on shore, and we advised that it should be adopted in one of Messrs.

Bibby's smallest steamers, the Frankfort.

The results were found perfectly satisfactory.

Some 20 per cent.

of fuel was saved; and, after the patent right had been bought, the method was adopted in all the vessels of the company.
When these new ships were first seen at Liverpool, the "old salts" held up their hands.