Ships of the Future: Article From Old Lithuanian Soviet Magazine

First of all - Happy New Year my dear readers!


So, I'll tell you a short story how I decided to write about that. On Christmas day my family and I went to the village. I was so bored that I decided to find something interesting and wow! I found even more old Lithuanian soviet magazines with interesting articles. Haha, I'm lucky these days.


So, here's an article from old Lithuanian magazine 'Svyturys' (eng. 'Lighthouse') about how people back in 1965 imagined ships of 21st century.

This is the cover of the magazine:

...and the whole article (photos on other page):

The text is all about the history of ships, but I won't translate the text. I thought it would not be interesting for you to read that as you you can always find even more info on Wikipedia.

So here's the most interesting part: pictures (click to enlarge)

Translation:

pic. number one: oceanic catamaran - the ship of future.

pic. number two: British people are projecting this capacity
of 80 thousand tons atomic submarine. It's lenght - 244
meters, width about 49 meters, height - 15 meters.

pic. number three: American designers are suggesting to
build an original submarine. Control panel is elevated above
the water.

pic. number four: Atomic passenger ship with underwater wings.

pic. number five: In the future, these submarines will be used to catch
whales. As you see, whale will not be able to run away.

pic. number six and seven: These ships will be flying in the 21st century

So, here comes my summary. I think most of them are unreal; just like from my-beloved sci-fi section, but it's nice to see how people back then imagined future ;)