UNWEILDY MAMMOTH

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2161, 29 May 1914, Page 7

UNWEILDY MAMMOTH

SJS. VATEBLAND : ■'v/fis COSTLY DEPARTURE FROM NEW YORK /:;[ By Tclccra,jj)i-Picss Assacialioll-Copyriclit "Times" aflc! Kidney "Sim" Se.rTicw.. ■ (Roe. May 28, 7.15 p.m.). ;<;■;. Nsw yock, May; 27. ■ The HamSiiirg-Ai.iK-rika stcaulcr Vatcrland (08,000 torts), tlift largest; vessel in tho worM, when leaving pert, ftTcrturned a coal barge, dragged two tugboats from their berths, and when backing wit nearly crashed into two largo passenger steamers. Tho leviathan then svmng towards tho pier, and the churning of ■ her screws suclsed the water cmt of it, causing the hawsers of two steamers to snap, and forcing i'iwtn against the bulkheads, smashing theif ■own. rails and also the pifit rails. Tho Vaterkitid finally ptt*oe«kd o»her voyage, after indicting £6000 damage.

The Hainliurs-liftericaii Sinet Vaterlantl, tho lsr««st ttssel in tlio wqs ; isl, sajlod from Southampton an her nsaiden trip lo Xefi' V-ork on May 15 last. Tho following figures arc for tha VatErln'nd and her fiistor ship the Impc-rator, the largest t*ssc! at present in gfirrice:— ' ' Voterlaiifl. Impsrotor, Tonnagß ~...,... SS.OOO 52,M0 Length. !K6 feet iO.!)fcet Beam 108 feet ?S fwst Horsc-powcr ... 65.080 fiS-fIM Speed 25 knots 24 knots (dssigawl) {actually done) The Vatcrfo'rtsl is tho first vesfel evef built with funiwis which tip not {kiss ■ directly throiiph Uie centre of 4hc decks, ; Slio luis th..fe 'fnnneJß. Eacli o£ the two ' funnel:* in the fitat-c'nss sicfcioft is jn tho i shape of oh hi verted "if." Too "lijw slairs" ri.se tip on either side of tlio ship from'beneath the lowe&t pr.sscngor ' deck and join fin tho bridfie slock in a single tube, Vfiiek risss aiiars the uprrordeck iilco an ordinary £«u»wl. The space occupied bj erdiuary funnels pawiiiK through the ittWdle of the decks is thus left chat, and tba passong«rs cccuny the firli deck iritliout cibstracUon. This Rives <v lons contval torriflor on eacli of tlw 'passflisw Jeeks. . Thero are also two inai,ii etaiteasce tacir.g each other, antf tilts ou Bilti*r side" ef the ship. An intercetirtg jvAM i_s the iHstaUa-. tion of a t-oaipfcie' fit<> briftwlE etutioii, at which fircijKUi ofe nlways on dut.v. This has evwy kind ef.fiio-estingwishins appliance. Shosiit & firs brenjt out in any part of tk- siliii, the fact wnld bo known almost iranictHaWy by the fifemen on duty, fsr siuoke iroulcl bo -Awtemntically sneked tkroush a tiilso to H« station. . Twfcas run to all parts nf the ship, so thiii! the point wliere an otttbrtah oeeura is ijtstaUy lovaotl.