Battle cruiser "Wittelsbach"

Title (Dublin Core): Battle cruiser "Wittelsbach"
Subject (Dublin Core): en Technology; en Ships
Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core): This Battle Cruiser Is Mother to the Mine-Sweepers
extracted text (Extract Text): SEAPLANES have their mother ships,
and now mine-sweepers have them
too—that is, German mine-sweepers.

In the picture below you see the Witlels-
bach, an old battle cruiser that has but re-
cently been converted into such a mother
ship.

She can now accommodate twelve small
mine-sweepers on her decks. There are
also on deck huge cranes for picking up
the mine-sweepers and lowering them to
the water.

When the sweepers return at the end of
a day’s work, the cranes reach down and
pick them out of the water with hardly an
effort.
In the picture of the Wittelsbach shown
herewith you can see four of the sweep-
ers in their places on deck. Two more
are still in the water, ready to be lifted
up to the ship's decks, as a cat lifts her
kittens and carries them one by one to the
corner that is their home, taking them out
of harm’s way.
Language (Dublin Core): eng
Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core): Interwar period
Date Issued (Dublin Core): 1920-09
Is Part Of (Dublin Core): Popular Science Monthly, v. 97, n. 3, 1920
pages (Bibliographic Ontology): 77
Rights (Dublin Core): Public Domain (Google digitized)
Source (Dublin Core): Google Books
Archived by (Dublin Core): Filippo Valle; Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)