AMERICAN STEEL BARGE: BUILDER OF THE WHALEBACK

摘要

Captain Alexander McDougall, (1845-1924), was a native of the island of Islay, in the west of Scotland and clearly a man of great strength of character. He was convinced that his "whaleback" design freighter, with its almost cylindrical hull form, would combine ease of construction with economy of operation, and would, therefore, be the freighter of the future. He received dozens of patents for different aspects of the design. His concept was also unusual in that he visualized each whale-back steamer towing two whaleback barges.