The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-18
THE BIGGEST LINER.
KAISER WILHELM DER CROSSE IS
ALSO VERY FAST.
Great Record Made by the New North
German Lloyd steamer-she IL the
scorcher of the seas-General Descrip-
ton of the Swift Leviathan.

The giantess of liners, the Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse of the North Ger.
man Lloyd feet, on her maiden voyage
fulfilled the prophecy of her builders,
the Vulcan Shipbuilding company OF
Stettin, by beating the record from
Southampton, which was days and 81
minutes, and was held by the st. Paul
of the American line
The time of the great German scorch.
er, days, 22 hours and 4 minutes, not
only creates a new record on the South.
ampton route, but smashes all maiden
records on any route, and imperils the
supremacy of the Cunarders Lucania
and Campania as mistresses of the
peaceful seas of commerce.
Her run of 564 knots, completed on
the last day of the trip, exceeds by two
knots the best westward daily run of
the Cunarder Lucania This clearly in.
dicates that it will not be long before
the Lucania will be a back number.
The Kaiser covered 3, $50 knots at an
average hourly speed of 2l.39 knots.
There are bigger averages than that,
but this was only maiden trip.
On her magnificent days run of 564
knots the Kaiser made an average of
nearly 23 knots an hour, which is what
her builders think she can sustain for
whole voyage. This means that she will
beat the Lucania by about a knot an
hour on a voyage, and that she will re.
duce the time from Southampton to five
days and half. She developed 80, 600
horsepower on the trip, and her average
daily consumption of coal was 500 tons
Her steam pressure to the square inch
was ls6 pounds, and the average revo.
luton of her screws was n to the min
ute. AT certain hours ON the trip the
steam pressure was a trifie higher and
the revolution of her propellers faster.
That was notably so during the last
eight hours, when her average speed
was 2314 knots. She was bounding for
home base then, and the engineer repre-
senting her builders, who was bossing
the trip down in the business part of
the ship, knew what was expected of |
him.
The Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse is |
the largest steamship that has been !
launched since the colossal Great East |
ern left the ways. She is GAS feet long, |
or 81 feet shorter than the Great East |
ern, and she measures IA, 900 tons gross |
The Great Eastern was only a single |
screw, and she made freighter's time |
OF about IL knots. Nobody can tell yet |
the possibilities of the great German |
Her, which has already travelled at the |
rate of more than 22 knots but that
she will do somewhat better than the
Campania and Lucania there is little
doubt i'll the minds of her owners.
The Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse is
The only liner with four tunnels that
has ever been in this or any other port.
These are her dimensions: Length over
all, GAS feet; beam, GO feet; depth, 43
FEET; tonnage, $4,000, and displace.
nent, 20, tons. She has bilge keels
IN both sides of her hull, by which her
endency TO roll is checked The violent
vibrations so often created by great ell.
zine power on ocean steamers will not
De felt on her, as the engines are bal.
lnced by the Schlick system, by which
he up and down motion Of the ponder.
'us masses is compensated, and the
leaving motion Of the engines so dis
greeable TO passengers and injurious to
he vessel herself will be avoided.
The ship is divided into 10 transverse
all extending to the upper
Ieck, and by one longitudinal bulkhead
q me engine room into Is water tight
omoArtments, so that even should three
fill the vessel could not
ink. ne four groups of boilers are
ach placed in separate water tight
entirely divided from the
theirs, so that in case of a collision the
essel would never be without steam TO
york her main engines or her pumps.
his feature is an improvement Oh any
hing that has ever been attempted in
his direction on passenger steamers.
The vessel has double bottom that
} divided into 90 subdivisions. In addi-
ION to these safety appliances, the
laiser has "a large lifeboats placed upon
he awning deck, ready for immediate
Sc. She has been built in accordance
nth the requirements of the imperial
ierman navy department and will in
ase of war be fitted with large mum.
er of guns and enter the German naval
ervice as cruiser
The ship is driven by two triple ex.
ansion engines having q combined
of 10000. Each works on
BUR cranks with four steam cylinders,
ne behind the other, constructed by {
ne Vulcan Shipbuilding company of
tettin, the builders of the hull. The
iameter of the cylinders is as follows: /,
Ugh pressure cylinder, so inches; in.
cylinder S9A inches; two
wv pressure cylinders, 961s inches.
The two engines are separated by
'ater tight longitudinal bulkhead. The :
NO three bladed propellers measure 90
yet 3A inches in diameter, with
itch of 32 feet 10 inches They are !
of bronze, and each weighs
tons The crank shafts and the screw
iafts, which measure "a inches in di.
meter, are made by Krupp of Essen of
ickel steel The length of the shafting