Recent dispatches from Denmark tell of remarkable experiments,
carried on in the sound between Denmark and Sweden, for
the purpose of testing the seaworthiness of a vessel built
according to the dimensions of Noah’s Ark, as given in Gen.
6:15. According to the Copenhagen _Daily Dannebrog_, Naval
Architect Vogt, who has experimented for a long time with the
dimensions of Noah’s Ark as given in the Bible, has recently
completed a model of that ancient craft. It measures 30 feet
in length by 5 feet in width by 3 feet in height, the actual
measurements of the ark of Noah being 300×50×30. The model is
built in the shape of an old-fashioned saddle-roof, so that a
cross-section represents an isosceles triangle. When this queer
craft was released from the tugboat which had towed it outside
the harbor and left to face the weather on its own account, it
developed remarkable sea-going qualities. It drifted sideways
with the tide, creating a belt of calm water to leeward, and the
test proved conclusively that a vessel of this primitive make
might be perfectly seaworthy for a long voyage. It is well known
that the proportionate dimensions used by modern ship-builders
are identical with those of the diluvian vessel. (Text.)
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