HUGE STEAMERS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 409, 19 January 1909, Page 5

HUGE STEAMERS.

jSOUTHAJIPXpN-ISW YORK;SERViqjE. • ".--. ;' ;<M TELEOKAPir— PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHT.V '':: ; . (Eeo. January 18, 11.55 p,m\) -.::-.!-;- U ■'■;■;■'' ':-"-/:.: r'*'-* Lontion, January 18;; ; ;; -.V ■;:. Tlie -new White; Star' leviathans, the 01ym- ; : ':\ ■$ we"" - and:-the- Titanic, : are destined' whop ■'.-'i" launched, for-the Southamptpn-New York aer- fi'-'A .pee..;.,;;. :. : ;'/\. ._..;:;■::;:; -';.;.; :-: ,v -: ■/?■■■ ■J^' ;j; ; -SOME COMPARISONS.-' ■; : ';s ; V ■;|>The Oforoipie end-Hio T.itanic, whioh are beins': ; -'* Wilt at .Belfast by Messrs. Harland and Wolff* "v" will be much larger .-'•an'tlie Lusitanji and t}.»'"':&: Jltturetania,..but.not, so fast.. .The.details '"Jibe..Deei;'seftled; : buf'are '■•: '■' ;-■ Lusitania and .■ NewTVTiiteStar ' ; >' ._..;, ~.,. Mariretania. ;,., . :'Liners.-. . •/.■■ length ."...„■ 790 ft' • giSflft. , ' ■ -'r ; ' v ■■.-.•■■■" Breadth---;'...;...'. ;■ .88ft... 92ft. .:'.,",; Tonnage 33,000 '■ '. 15,000-50,000'. ;':-"' 5peed................ 25knets.. ■-' -19-20 .knots. - : '- ■ Bngmes .......;.... Turbine. . Turbine ~; aid ■ pis>> .;,:;;,:. •.' • . ;'• :■.-.- .-..'. ton.combinqd. ~,?i'.:''*s.i ~..i^ ,v ' s Wps hav€:-j>eeii provided'at Queen's tls-.-.p?) land,"Belfast. ' -There are tiro 'immense' gantries'" , ii';': 225 feet higli, running the whole tha~-.'Vv; budding slips,: each fully;a' thousand feef long, -y! " : Phese gantries,; supported in thirty-three huge , '■r-V----cplnmns, each over 180 feeti high, irill be pro-■::-;; Tided with pneumatic riveters and lifting cranes, >. -'"v By the end of 1910 the new liners should be- ■'!' ne.iriy.readyJor. they may be '-.' jolloiyed;by vessels' 1000, feefc in length.is.Tvithin'.- : " '<:■ ■thfl tioimds.offeasonable'proba'bility... :, .;;■..:.;-' Should the combinatiott of turbine and recipe ■- rocating engines in the 14,000-ton White Star; ■■"'•>' V Line Laurentic, for (he Canadian service, prove : : a; success, the Olympic and the Titanic will.ba ' : V" .fitted -ivith; similar engines, of much : greater ; ' '- power, however, and with sis screws.instead of(':■;■ three.' '-' .. • • ' . ■'-.-■ "a ' '■;, .: ■. -y/J-::''. ••_. The great drawback in the past to the T.-'. >'*.' mg of Vessels-;of the-size projected is the-ab-V'.-'..'; sence of adcquate : dry and wet doci accommo. •'• dation.;.-" Harbour authorities in/the United': -; 'Kingdom—notably at Southampton and Belfast -'-■<■ —and in America have recently beguit to' take '■' --V the matter up. - . :!'.-■ ':'■', ~,; ; . .. '; : : 'iJWris?. ran k : . ; B«Uen ;thns compares the.'/nen , .;''--- ■'•' ; lenatlians with the Great Eastern:—"She ' was ■'. v. ..- tons displacement, they 60,000;- she drew '■■!■' wheii laden' 30 • feet, they 37 feet; her length, ■■• ■■••■; - .I..think, ;was, about 600 feet,, theirs between 900' ■ V '■'-■ 'and a]thousand (exact fignres are not available. -: ':• in this particular); her combined horse-power - was 3000, theirs 50,000,'f0r they; are not to be .' ; consideredJfa'steships,'only they will not steam ■ - ;- less than twenty-one knots.": .■. . ■: ■ '■*>'