ANTI‐FOULING AND CORROSION PREVENTION COMBINED IN NEW SYSTEM: Poison Toxic to All Marine Fouling Organisms

The cathodic protection firm of F. A. Hughes & Co. Ltd. are patenting a new system, Toxion, which prevents both fouling and corrosion of ships' hulls below the water‐line. The first ship fully equipped with this system, the P. & O. S.S. Ballarat, drydocked in October this year on the Tyne, after trading for 14 months, making three round trips to Australia and spending on average 5½ weeks in Australian ports. Below are given details of the system and the findings at this last drydocking.