MONSTER GERMAN LINER.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1716, 5 April 1913, Page 5

MONSTER GERMAN LINER.

THE VATEKLAND LAUNCHED. By Telegraph—Press Association—OoEyrißht (Eco. April 4, 10.25 p.m.) Berlin, April i. Tho Hamburg-American Company's monster liner Vateriand has been launched.' With her sister ship, tho' Imperatoi\ sho is the largest vessel in the world. Tho Vateriand will carry eighty-thrct life-boats, seventy of ■ which will ,b( launchable on either side of the ship. THE GERMAN MAMMOTHS. The Imperator is a vessel of 50,000 ions, and is tho largest 6hir> in tho world, Sho is SBl ftet long, with a beam of 9C feet. Besides tho Vateriand anothei 50,000-ton linsr is to bo constructed foi tho company.. . Tho Imporitor lias accommodation in all for 5275 persons—Boo first, 000 second, 975 third, Ifoo steerage,. and 1100 crew, and, in accordance with tlio original do signs is to carry enough lifeboats to holt every passenger and overy member c tlio 'crew. Klio is exnectcd to attain r speed of 20,'lmots from tnrbino engine: operating quadruplo screws. Tho accommodation of the Imperator n on a most luxuriant scale. Sho is the first liner engaged in tho regular ocear servico to possess _ a ballroom, wnilo tilt rostaurant and winter garden are to ut an exc.ct reproduction of thoso tit tin Carlton Hotel. Her many other attrac tions includd a luxurious swimming bath Tlio Imporator is divided into 3G water tight compartments, of which an import ant feature is tho height, the compart nionts extending from tho second decl far above t'iie water lino right down c< the doublo bottom. Twenty-three of to compartments aro fitted with waterbgh door ' apparatus, closed from tho bndgt by electrical and pneumatic power, am not by their own weight.