The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-17
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EIGHT GREAT STEAMSHIP
Building For German Lines-They
VIII BE the Largest in Existence.
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VIII BE the Largest in Existence.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Eight immense steamships of which the
Kaiser wilhelm der Crosse is the biggest,
and each capable of carrying more passen-
gers and cargo than the famous Great
Eastern, are now under construction in
German shipyards for service between
New York and Europe.
Two of these new steamers are consid-
erably longer than the great Pennsylvan-
ia, of 10000 tons, recently launched at Bel
fast. The Great Eastern was longer, wild
er and deeper than the new marine giants.
but external lengths do not represent the
size of a vessels capacity. Shipping peo-
pie the world over measure vessels by
their carrying capacity.The modern ship
builder is able to construct a vessel small
Ter than the Great Eastern, but one that
Will be a greater carrier.
The Great Eastern was built to carry
2OOOc tons of cargo and 1000 passengers,
| or 5000 passengers and no cargo. Some of
the new leviathans will not only carry
90 900 tons of cargo, but from 1,500 to 1000
| passengers also.
If the coming queens of the sea were to
carry troops only, about 1000 men could
| be accommodated on each.
When the length of these vessels is stat
| ed in figures they do not convey an ade-
quate idea of the ships. If the Kaiser Will
! helm der Crosse could be stood on end
among the sky-scrapers of lower New
York, it would tower $40 feet above the
| tallest building in the metropolis.
To load the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse
! with full cargo of grain, the yield from
a wheat field of 10000 acres would be con-
| sumed. This enormous amount of grain
would need 1900 railroad freight cars,
with $50 bushels to a car. making over 60
! trains of 20 cars each.
| Give the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse a
full cargo of soft coal, and 1000 coal hop
pers, laden with twenty tons each, would
! be necessary to fill her.
Were she loaded with water she would
! carry 100000 gallons This would be
enough to give two gallons of water to all
the population of Greater New York She
is also capable of carrying enough food to
give pound package to over half the pop
ulation of the United States, or, to be ex-
act, H,S00,0O0 pounds of flour, coffee or
meat
1t has been calculated that in these ships
piece of coal the size of a walnut will
drive ten barrels of flour one mile Each
craft will consume from 200 to 800 tons of
coal a day and boil 100 tons of water.
Down in the bowels of the ships will be
| found 100 stokers and trimmers, of course
not all working at one time, but in gangs
of twenty-five, feeding twoscOre of fur
mace mouths.
The Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse is the
| longest of all. She is to have four tunnels
and $4,000 horsepower in her quadruple
engines. She will be $40 feet in length.
The Kaiser Frederick, Is feet longer than
| the new Pennsylvania, but 40 feet shorter
| than the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse, will
have three tunnels and "a, 600 horsepower.
| The other four, known as the Barbarossa
class, will have two tunnels and are to
be 14-knot boats, with the exception Of the
Bremen, which will be a 15-knot boat.
The Pennsylvania and her sister ship,
building for the Hamburg-American line.
will have four masts and a single funnel
each, the stack being broad enough to
drive an omnibus through it, The steel
structures will be divided by a non-com-
municating bulkhead running from the
keel to the upper deck. To go from one
to the other side of the hull it will be ne
cessary for the officers and crew to as
cend to the deck.
This arrangement, in addition to num-
Der of bulkheads, makes the ships almost
unsuitable, were they to be Hooded with
water.
The two engines, with quadruple cyln-
! ders occupy separate compartments,
each working independently Of the other.
In addition to 10000 tons Of cargo, these
ships win carry 1900 passengers.
The finest cabins have been arranged
above deck amidships the second cabin
aft and the Storage passengers on the
main deck and the upper deck amidships.
| Above the saloon deck is an extra deck
containing the DINING and smoking
| rooms.
The Pennsylvania and the Barbarossa
win be the first Of the new steamers to
arrive here. They will reach New York
early in the spring. The Kaiser Wilhelm
der Crosse will not appear until some
time later She is the longest ship ever
built with the exception Of the Great
Eastern but is bigger than the latter in
her capacity for carrying cargo and pas
sengers at a profit. The Kaiser Wilhelm
der Crosse Is a new type. and one which
Il Is now expected will have many imi-
tators. The boldnesseand thoroughness
with which such a vessel has been de-
signed and built in Germany have excited
the Jealousy of British shpbuilders. who
are already predicting that she will be a
! failure.