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These strange vessels are comparatively rare, and seem to be passing away entirely.

The turret steamer falls into almost any category.
It is built in order to save money on certain port and canal dues and other taxes, and its appearance is perhaps the weirdest of that of any ship, save, perhaps, the antediluvian whalebacks once so common on the Great Lakes.
Below the water line these turret steamers are much the same as other freighters, but from there up they are vastly different.
Just above the water line their sides are turned in until they are almost a deck.
These “decks” run forward nearly to the bow and aft almost to the stern. But the central portion of the ship from bow to stern is raised ten or a dozen feet above these strange side “decks,” which in reality are not decks at all, but only sections of the sides of these strange hulls.

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Ships of the seven seas
By Hawthorne Daniel
Contributor: Franklin D Roosevelt
Published 1925
Available from gutenberg.org or archive.org

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