The herald., 1897-05-06

terS that form the word Oceanic" She
will be 705 feet long, Is feet in excess of
the length of the Great Eastern. Her
depth will be little more than so feet, her
mean draught being % feet, and her
beam trifie less than IS feet. In this lat
ter respect only is she the inferior of the
Great Eastern.
While the speed power Of the Oceanic
will be tremendous, the ship will be built
for the purpose of affording accommoda-
tions to passengers superior to any that
now exist. The Lucania and the Cam
pania are supposed to be the ideal float
ing palaces, but the Oceanics state
rooms will give that one Improvement for
which transatlantic travellers have in
vain sighed-plenty of room. The addi-
tional space which the greatly increased
size of the vessel will afford is not to be
utilized toward increasing the number
OF staterooms as much as toward MAX
ing the staterooms larger. 1t will also
De possible for traveller to secure a
room to himself. In fact, the Oceanic
Will be arranged as greatly as possible
upon the basic principle of a great mod
ern hotel-not the floating hotel that so
many lines advertise, but the bona fide
article
In very many respects the Oceanic
Will merely be an enlarged counterpart
OF the Teutonic and Majestic, two of the
most popular passenger steamships that
ply between New York and European
ports. There are no startling innova-
tions from a structural standpoint and
no effort will be made to place her at the
front of the fleet that are known as. ocean
RreVhOnn6S NaUnrt baJ ho-
capacity will be sufficient, it is believed
to take her across the Atlantic in four
days. The present time record is a little
more than hve days and four hours. The
total combined horse power of the
oceanic will be $4,000. That of the Lu-
cania and Campania is $4,000. She will
nave three sets of triple-expansion en-
gines the capacity Of each of which will
be $1,000 horsepower. She will also have
three screws, one more than the usual
equipment.
Therefore. although much higher sea
speed than that now contemplated is
quite practicable, from an engineering
point of view, it has been determined as
far as possible to aim at a regular
wednesday morning arrival, both in
New York and in Liverpool, making the
Irish channel and Queenstown by dav-
light and enabling passengers who NAV
be travelling to places beyond the port of
arrival to proceed to and, in the ma ioritv
of cases, reach their destination with
comfort during the day. At the Same
time the vessel is to be so constructed
that the motion of even the winter sea
will not be felt with anything like the
severity that ordinarily aff1icts those
who travel in winter by steamship II
is expected that the service of tbe
Oceanic will be continuous. regardless
Of seasons.
TO read of the dimensions of the
oceanic hardly gives an adequate idea
Of her tremendous size. Her model shows
that she will be beautifully proportioned
and so, like very large man of fins
physique, she will not look her size un.
less some object be placed beside he:
enabling comparisons. For instance
the Ethiopia of the Anchor line o1
steamships that ply between Glasgow
and New York could almost go between
decks aboard the Oceanic While ]
have never seen the steamer Northwest
which travels the Great Lakes in the
United States. the dimensions which !
have read of her-depth, length ani
beam-show that she is hardly half a.
long as the Oceanic Cill be, and of deptI
and beam proportionate thereto. Sh,
will be more than third larger than tn,
steamships which ply between Sal
Francisco and Japanese and Australian
ports. She will possess but two smoke
stacks, it is true, but either of these &
of sufficient size to permit of an openin.