Streamlined Ocean Liner

The liner as featured on the cover of Popular Science Monthly, April 1934
"New Streamlining for Big Ships", Popular Science Monthly, April 1934[1]
Streamlined superstructure of SS Princess Anne (designed 1933)[2]
MV Kalakala (1935)[2]
SS Princess Anne under way. Entered service 1936.[2]
Bohn advertisement showing a streamlined ocean liner (never built). Metal Progress, 1946.[3]

The Streamlined Ocean Liner was a design by Norman Bel Geddes for a streamlined steam-powered ocean liner. The shape was compared by Pathé to that of a porpoise, blunt at the front and tapered at the rear. It first appeared in Geddes' 1932 book Horizons and an outline patent was filed in 1933 with a detailed patent following in 1934. An offer was made for the rights to the design in the late 1930s, which Geddes refused. He still hoped to sell it to an American shipbuilder, but the ship was never built.

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  3. ^ Metal Progress, Vol. 49 (1946), p. 483.