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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 36, 12 February 1904, Page 3

The Scientific American states : "preliminary work lias begun on the two new steamers that are building lor the Cu'nund Company mulur subsidy tu tire Imperial C'ovcrmnent. i'hey. will lie so huge as to completely dwarf even such large vessels as the DcutschluMl anil Kaiser Wilheliu H. WJiilc there will be a cimsidentble increase in the length, the iivw boats Is/iivg KKJl't longer than the Kaiser Wilheliu ][., we must look to the increase in beam u'lrcl draught to account for the enormous displacement of 'IO,OOO tons which. the nvw ships will reach. Of the fast liners, tl.'e Kaiser Wilheliu is the broadest, with « bvam of 712 ft. while her draught is :><j(l ; each Cuna.ider, however, will have a beam of not less than 80ft and a uiimiimim draught of between lilft luul Hull ; and the length over all will be ROO ft. I'Yom the.se dinicrisio'iiK it will be seen that the ratio of beam to the length is larger than bus ninrk«l the more recent trann-AtUmtie ships. Tank experiments, however, have shown that for these vessels the best speed lines can be ol Gained v. it h the proportions given above." A Perth cable reports that the. barque County of lhii.ifr.ii-j collided in iiml-oicean, on Christians Day, with the ba,-,|„c .Madura. TJ K vessels were exchanging signals, and got close together. Neit,-.fr was seriously injured.