GIANT LINER COMFORT.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1922, Page 1

GIANT LINER COMFORT.

LONDON, Feb. 11. The Homeric, the first of the big new White Star liners for the Transatlantic service this spring, sails from Southampton for New York on Wednesday. A queenly vessel of 35,000 tons, and the largest twin-screw steamer in the world she was acquired from Germany through the Reparations Committee. A striking feature of the ship is the great numlier of unusually spacious State-rooms, fitted for one person only, with bed and settee and other furniture, so that one gets the effect of a bed-sitting-room. An official at an inspection on Saturday said the Homeric would probably some to be regarded as the “bed-sitting-room” liner. She has accommodation for 529 first-class passengers, and the chief public rooms heing°on one deck, there is a wonderful vista of green and gold, white and pink from the dining-room at one end to the smoke-room at the other. The New York services this summer, with six of the biggest ships afloat, will surpass all records. The White Star ].ine will have the Homeric, the Olympic, and presently the 56,000-ton Majectic, the largest vessel in the, world; and the Cunard Line will have the popular Aquitania, the re-conditioned Berongaria, and the Mauretania. Southampton port authorities are considering improvements to the deepwater approaches necessary for the manoeuvring of such great vessels.