THE GREAT ATLANTIC LINERS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 107, 27 April 1908, Page 4

THE GREAT ATLANTIC LINERS

Sonic very interesting figuree. ai\< given in Engineering concerning tin' great Atlantic, .linens. Twenty years' ago, when first, vessels of twenty .knots' ■were introduced on the Atlantic, it W tui|d that tb c tost for each, voyage vvtto' übqut i'JUUU 'to X 11.000; ten yeari '.(go, jvheu ii'/x t« 23-knot ships weri* put ,011 Hi,. t serv-ilce, tliis wkis increased' ■lo about .C 111,000; and now it is calculated tliat the, expense .of a 24'/.-knoll Muurclania or InwUiMiia, trip .cannot' be short of £30,000. Ass to the tot a* •population of Atlantic .liners, the ku" gvr figure, f]i\A) rto .the emigrant shipd ■from fllie Mediterranean, l'or VJO7 tin.' •average is 1089, whivreas ,iu the previous year it ua.s- 1050. t The maximum ■average per ship for any one lime IhM year js 10W8 —tJie mean q'f the .Whiti' Star Mediterranean lilu'rs.

Over 800 persons are employed ovi' ■the -Mauretania. Of these the gre'aiteil ■number .belong .to .the engineers' anu' stewards' stall', the sailing staff being eoniiEirativeliy small. Captain JohtA PriUki>r«l lias under lii.m eight officers} lifted* petty pfliceis, forty .seamen, two ttirpciutcrs, one joiner, two Mai* ooni operators. Chief-Engineer John' (urrie Ims twenty-nine engineers, •three- refrigerator engineers, .twentyl (ii:<» grcasters, 1(12 firdiiien, and 120 triiraiitins; a total of 306. 'Hie purseW staff eo'niprises .three pursers, one chief! steward, one eliief, tour loading stewi tints. It wo matrons, forty cooks, two* liakcl's. 305 fit (''wards, ten .stewardesses, two lypisbs, three mail sorters, two luir■bcrs, one inspector; a total of 370.