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SS Bessemer
The SS ''Bessemer'' (also called the ''Bessemer Saloon'') was an experimental Victorian cross-Channel passenger paddle steamer with a swinging cabin, a concept devised by the engineer and inventor Sir Henry Bessemer, intended to combat seasickness. ==Background== Bessemer, a severe seasickness sufferer, devised in 1868 the idea of a ship whose passenger cabin - the Saloon - would be suspended on gimbals and kept horizontal mechanically to isolate the occupants from the ship's motion: an idea he patented in December 1869. After successful trials with a model, the levelling achieved by hydraulics controlled by a steersman watching a spirit level, Bessemer set up a limited joint stock company, the Saloon Ship Company, to run steamships between England and France. This gained £250,000 capital, financing the construction of a ship, the ''SS Bessemer'', with the naval constructor Edward James Reed as chief designer.〔The Bessemer Saloon Steam-Ship, Chapter XX, ''Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S., An Autobiography''〕
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