SSP KAIMALINO 190 TON STABLE SEMI SUBMERGED PLATFORM RANGE SUPPORT MONOHULL XD12254

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This color U.S. Navy film from 1976 is about the design, construction, testing and use of a 190-ton ship called the SSP Kaimalino. This ship is the first of its kind which provides the lowest motion in large waves known of any ship type in the world. The SSP is considered a SWATH (Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull) ship, with research and design elements based on the patents of engineer Tom G. Lang. Lang led the model tests, and managed the SWATH design aspects of the 190-ton SSP Kaimalino shown in the film. The type of ship virtually eliminates seasickness. It's major uses are for any kind of ship application that requires low motion in large waves. In March 1973, the Coast Guard Yard in Curtis Bay, Maryland, laid the experimental ship SSP Kaimalino. The project was developed by the Naval Undersea Center (Pearl Harbor, Hawaii). In just a few months, shipbuilders hand