WORLD'S GREATEST LINERS

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2347, 13 November 1908, Page 6

WORLD'S GREATEST LINERS

OLYMPIC AND TITANIC WILL BE TWICE SIZE OF MAURE- : TANIA..

The White Star Line has officially announced that the name of the second of its two great liners, ■which are to bo built, at Messrs Harland and Wolff’s yard at Belfast, will bo the Titanic. The tonnage, of _ each vessel will: be about 60,001), Avhich is nearly twice that of the Mauretania, the largest vessel now atloat. The keel blocks for the first of these amazing.ships, the Olympic, were laid down at Belfast last week, and work is now progressing on her. The keel blocks for'the Titanic will be Laid down early in January next. The inew liners will ho nearly 1,000 feet long, and about 80 feet broad, and wfiile they will not be built for great speed, they will, it js expected, be aHe to average twentyone knots. They will be equipped with a combination of turbine and reciprocating engines. The cost, of the two vessels will be about £3,500,000. It ;is interesting to compare these two great ships with the greatest ships mow afloat, and with some of the other famous ships of their day. The following are the figures: Length

The first vessel of any kind that ever crossed the Atlantic —Columbus’ Santa Maria—was sixty feet long and had .a tonnage of 233. lb may also be mentioned that the tonnage of either the Titanic or Olympic wi 1 "be more than the total tonnage of the Spanish Armada, Avhich was 59,120.

Tonnage. in feet. Olympic ... ... GO. 000 1,000 Titanic ... GO',000 1,000 Mauretania ... 31,938 762 Lusitania ... 31,550 762 Adriatic ... .:. 24,541 709 Baltic ... 23,870 709