TRANSATLANTIC LINERS.

Taihape Daily Times, 1 October 1919, Page 5

TRANSATLANTIC LINERS.

An announcement was recently made. that the L'nite<l States’ Shipping Board has completed plans for the construction. for -the Transatlantiv‘ service, of two large laners, which are desi_gne«l to make the \_'oya-ge in four days. The Vessel will have :1 length of 1000 ‘.'\2<‘-;', a beam of 102 feet, and a moundeal depth of 7-1 feet. The gross ‘tonnage will be 55,000. with a draught of 35 feet, and the desigxled. Speed is 30 knots. The turbines will be slli’)}_~liL*«l from boilers fired with 531 3.1121, of wliich

lsiifiicicint will be cz>.l'ric«l for 11‘ voyage ‘of TUOO miles; flu; vessel will thus lbe able to c~o»mpl+e%e the round voyage lwithout refuclling. Ass«or=,c,odatioli will ‘ be provided for 3000 passmng-31's, and 3 crew of 1000 will be carried. It is pi-oposed -to consti-mt. a special terniinal for These VCSS(*.IS at Fort Pond B"d.'_')‘, .\lo‘ntauk Point, the most CilS"[‘.i!l‘l_V point of Long Island, tancl this, besides I'c—lieviiig the congestion in New YOl'k hal'boul'. will reduce the length of the vcyage to Plymouth by about 118 miles. 81-ita.in’s fastest - -.‘p3SSC}lgOl' sfozun, the Munl'ct:xni.a, has a service speed of 25 knots, but its l'eng*Lh is only 762 feet. THC Aqnitania and Olympic mo largc-r vessels, the former being 868 foot in. lv_*ngtll_, xand the ,-,l.':tlm' 852 feet 10119.‘. wi~tll speeds of 24 and 23 knots respectively. The steamship Im~ pm-ator. formerly owned by ‘Elie Ham-btirg-Amoricarf line, and now surrendered to Great Brlfain, has a lengt.ll of 882 foot, with :1 speed of 23 }<n=o’ts, but the Americans lmve a l‘ar»ger and faster vessel in the ex--German liner Vaferland, since re-named Leviathan, which is 907 feet in length, and has :1‘ speed 0f,124 knots. The successful eonstruclfion of these Ve.<scls will crwfaiinly be 21 notable B(°.hit2VclllCllf4 in ‘naval arcln'tectul'o, "nufifiwiill he of less im- 1 q3oi'tglnce te<shrlic..all=y fhan the work of} ‘the British designers and huildm-s who I produccirl the battle—eruisors Repulso! -and Renown, having a speecl of 32 kndfs. A still lai'ger and fa.s‘l:ol' Britzisli I ci'ui.¢ol' is nr.‘a,l:ing completion.