"ATLANTIC SKYSCRAPER.”

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 38, 20 June 1913, Page 6

"ATLANTIC SKYSCRAPER.”

o THE BIGGEST VESSEL IN THE WORLD. TWENTY-TWO KNOTS AN HOUR. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] i [United Press Association.] (Received 1-45 p.m.) New' York, June 19. The Imperator arrived with many notable people aboard, and was given a great reception. ' ~ The average speed maintained throughout the voyage was 22 knots. The Imperator has a gross tonnage of 50,000, and her length is 900 ft. ( 7 She has eleven decks, and her towering height above the water line has I already won for her the title of “the ! Atlantic skyscraper.” Her dead j weight, exclusive of engines, boilers, 'and cargo, is estimated at 77,000,jOOOIbiS, or 20,000,0001bs more than a fully-equipped battleship of the Dread!nought type. She has accommodation j for about 5000 persons, and the lessons of the Titanic disaster have been Iso effectively ‘ brought home to her builders that her boat equipment is quite equal to the accommodation of a full complement of passengers and jerew. An elaborate arrangement of ■ watertight bulkheads, 36 in number, (has been provided, and it ns claimed by her builders that under no conceivable circumstance could the ship be slink or her engine-room flooded. The vessel has four propellers, each actuated' by a 15,000 horse-power turibine, and each of her huge screws, jthe largest ever made, is cast in a I single mass of phosphor-bronze. Tlie [ship is expected to have a sea-going speed of over twenty krfots an hour. iThe drawing-rooms, smoking-rooms, land billiard-rooms, eclipse in size and | magnificence anything previously designed, and amongst other features are a large restaurant, a deck cafe, a winter garden, a spacious ballroom, and a Roman swimming bath. The great first-class dining-room is in pure Louis XIV. style, and accommodates 800 diners, while the state rooms are more like comfortable and roomy bedrooms than ship’s cabins.