Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-05-29
Twenty Questions and Answers About
Steamships.

IWenty questions and Answers About
Steamships.
1. What was the name of the first
steamship that crossed the Atlantic. and
how long did it take herr The Savannah
in 1919. Twenty-Five days. (Thc usual
time for one of the fast clipper ships was
from sixteen to twenty-one days.)
q. What is the largest passenger steam.
ship in commission2 City Of Paris,
| 10, 499 tons displacement.
3. What is the cost of steamship
like the Majestic2 Nearly two million
Of dollars.
l.. What steamship carries the largest
number of cabin passcngcrs2 The
Etruria. $50.
3. What has been the greatest days
run OF any ocean Steamship 515
miles.
8. Is speed materially increased by
twin screwsa No; but the vessel can
turn quicker, and if one shaft breaks.
the other will carry her into port.
z. What line has the largest trans.
Atlantic fleet of firs.-class passenger
steamships, and how many2 NORTH
German Lloyd. Twelve vessels.
.. How many steamships are there en-
gagged in tho Atlantic passenger
tradcl About ninety.
8. What is the longest steamship now
in service in the world2 The Tcutonic
565.OS feet long.
III. What captain has been the longest
in the transatlantic scrvice2 Captain
Brooks, of tho Arizona, Guion line.
IL. How many cabir passengers were
landed in New York during 1890?
Nincty-niue thousand one hundred and
cighty-ninc.
IL. How much coal is consumed bv
one OF the great liners in twenty -four
hours' About three hundred tons, or
466 pounds minute.
IL. What is the average expense of n
single voyage-New York to Liverpool
and rcturna Seventy 1--WE thousand dol.
lars
Ia. What were the dimensions of the
Great Eastern9 When was she launched.
and what was her horsepower Six
hundred and cighty-fect long, eighty
three feet broad, twenty-five feet
draught. Launched January 10, 1856.
horsepower, 5000. She had both side
wheels and screw.
10. What is the length of a nautical
knot in land measured Six thousand
and eighty feet. A land mile is $3.50
feet.
IL. (O What is the distance sailed. in
nautical miles, from New York to Liver
poole (b) From Liverpool to New
York; (a) Now York to Sandy Hook.
sixteen miles; Sandy Hook to Roches
Point, northern track, 2SO5 miles !:
southern track, $3.50 miles; from Rochcs
Point to Mersey Bar, 229 miles; and
from the Bar to stage landing in Liver
pool, fourteen miles. Totals, north track.
3o64 miles; south track, 3139 miles.
90 From Liverpool landing to Roches
Point, 243 miles; from Rochcs Point to
SANDY Hook light, northern track. 27SO
miles; southern track, $3.50 miles; Sandy
Hook to New York, sixteen miles.
Totals, north track, 3039 miles; south
track, 3109 miles.
II. (a) Between what points are rec
ords estimatcda (b) What is the first
light sighted on the British coast? The
Americana GAY Sandy Hook and Daunt's
ROCK, Queenstown Harbor, near Roches
Point. (b) Bull, COW and calf, South
coast of Ireland; Nantucket or Fire
Island.
is. What is the greatest number of
immigrants ever landed in New York in
a yeara In day2 Four hundred and
tifty-fve thousand four hundred and
fifty in 1888. Nearly 10000, MAY IL,
1887.
10. What was the first regular trans.
Atlantic line, and when established2
The British and American Royal Mail
and Steam Packet Co., founded in 1910,
by Samuel Cunard.
~. What are the chief landing ports
on the European side2 liverpool, for
the Cunard, Inman, White Star, Guion
and Anchor Lines; Havre for the French;
Bremen for the North German Lloyd
Antwerp for the Red Star; Rotterdam
and Amsterdam for the Netherlands;
Glasgow for the. Anchor and State; Ham
burg for the Hamburg American; Copen-
hagen for the Thingvalla. -.Scri6ner.