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Sunday 7 August 2016

Russian naval commission testing anti-roll tank of Frahm according to the Dutch magazine Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1913-1914 no. 2

An item reported that the Russian naval commission was extensively testing the anti-roll tank of Frahm. They were departed from Hamburg, Germany with a by Blohm&Voss chartered steamship towards the Azores.(1)

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The U-tube anti-roll tank of 1911. The purpose of such tanks fitted inside the ship was to improve the response of ships to roll motion. The shipbuilding engineer  Hermann Frahm (8 December 1867 Budelsdorf-28 December 1939 Remscheid) was a pioneer in this topic and who worked for the German shipyard Blohm&Voss, Hamburg, Germany.