On September 17th, 1912, at 3 a.m., I invited two very eminent experts, Sir Trevor Dawson and his coadjutor McKechnie, to leave their beds and come into my room to see an outline of the Fast Ship of the Future, both for War and Commerce, carrying sufficient fuel to go round the Earth with and with an increased capacity of 30 per cent. as compared with similar vessels of the same displacement using steam. At length a special Government Research Department has been set up to develop the Oil Engine, and a sum prohibitive in peace time has been cheerfully accorded by War reasoning to set up this establishment on a big basis. I reiterate what is said elsewhere, that the Oil Engine will revolutionise both War and Commerce when once it is perfected--through the enormous gain it affords in space and smaller crews through riddance of stokeholds and firemen, and facility of re-fuelling and cleanliness and absence of funnels, etc., etc. Here is a descriptive outline of H.M.S. “Incomparable,” as set forth in the early morning of September 17th, 1912: Really a Gem! She can be riddled and gutted outside the Central Diamond-shaped Armoured Citadel because nothing vital outside that Citadel! So lightly built she’ll weigh so little as to go Fast, with a hundred and fifty thousand horse power! She’ll shake to pieces in about 10 years! What’s the good of a warship lasting longer? The d--d things get obsolete in about a year! Ten 16-inch guns to begin with (afterwards 20-inch guns) for main armament. Eight broadside Torpedo Tubes (21-inch Torpedo). 32 knots speed at least. 16-inch armour on citadel and belt amidships, thinning towards the end. 850 feet long--to be afterwards 1,000 feet; 86 feet wide. Four Torpedo Tubes each side to be well before the Citadel (submerged Tubes) so as not to interfere with machinery space. Quadruple screws. Anti-Submarine guns in small single turrets. A Turtle-backed armoured hull, with light steel uninflammable structure before and abaft the armoured Diamond-shaped Citadel. Two Conning Towers. Hydraulic crane each side (very low in height) for lifting boats. The light central steel hollow mast only for wireless and for ventilation, made of steel ribbon to wind up and down at will. Jam up the Citadel all that is possible right in centre of Hull, and squeeze the last inch in space so as to lessen amount of 16-inch armour. Curved thick armour deck. Ammunition service by Hydraulic power. Oil right fore and aft the whole ship. Enough to go round the earth! Very high double bottom--honeycombed. Coffer dams everywhere stuffed with cork. This, then, is the Fast Battle Cruiser “Incomparable” of 32 knots speed and 20-inch guns and no funnels, and phenomenal light draught of water, because so very long and built so flimsy that she won’t last 10 years, but that’s long enough for the War!