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GHOST ship sign of things to come

16th November 2015 - 10:23 GMT | by Richard Thomas in London

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It seems like the shape of a fighting vessel's hull had found the perfect combination of form and function, remaining aesthetically relatively unchanged through generations of renewal and fleet regeneration.

Nevertheless, every once in a while the rulebook is torn up and the shipbuilding industry looks at what it could do with the constraints removed. In this case, it’s Juliet Marine Systems (JMS) and the GHOST fast patrol craft.

Built as a reconfigurable high-speed small waterplane area twin hull (SWATH) vessel, the GHOST provides better sea-handling in rough conditions that its planing or displacement counterparts, according to JMS.

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