Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-14
QUEEN OF THE SEA.

QUEEN OF THE SEA.
Biggest ship In the World Makes Its
First Trip Across the Atlantic
Something About the Great Vessel.
New York. Sept. 14.-True to her
scheduled time, the gigantic steamship
Oceanic Of the White Star line reached
port yesterday on her maiden trip from
Liverpool. Greeted by the cheers of
thousands, she steamed majestically UP
the river and warped into her pier amid
the din of whistles, and dipping of flags
and the flutter of handkerchiefs from
throngs which had crowded to that To-
cality to await her coming.
No records were broken None OF
those Immediately concerned with the
mammoth vessel expected that there
would be. Said the Right Hon. w. j.
Pirrie her designer. and who arrived as
a passeger by the Oceanic:
The only record we expect to estab
ish is that of regular Wednesday morn
ing arrivals. Take today, for instance,
when we are coming into harbor during
the forenoon. What profit would it have
been to have arrived, say, twelve hours
earlier and spent more than half of that
time at anchor?"
Suppose" he was asked, that the
Atlantic would be like the mill pond
during one of the oceanic passages
across would she then arrive any earli-
er because of fair weather conditons?"
No" Mr.. Pirrie replied, .'she would
not. She is intended to run on a certain
schedule, and she will keep it
But if she meets a gale Immediately
after her departure and storms beset
her during the rest of the voyage, what
them"
She would get in on time Mr.. Pirrie
said, and he said it with the confidence
of one who knews whereof he speaks.
This statement is a matter of essence.
Many ships have outweathered the
weather and reached port safe during
many trials. but this is perhaps the first
to start on her career with serene con-
fidence of mastery over the elements
whose owners make time tables with no
reference to wind or sea, sure of the
ability of their gigantic ship to bridge
the Atlantic unvexed by weather condi
tons which less pretentious craft must
take into account.
In addition to her crew of more than
400 the vessel had l.405 passengers
aboard, but looking down her long, half
empty decks one could not realize that
the great ship was carrying popua7
ton equal to that of a small town.
Capt. Cameron was on the bridge and
TOO busy with the plotting of his vessel
l3to answer questions about the voyage.
Steaming UP the bay the Oceanic met
the old White Star liner Germanio
steaming out to sea. 1t was meeting
| Of the time worn and the new. of one
of the oldest vessels in the White Star
last and its latest addition. The Ger
manic saluted With three whistles and
| hoistad the international code signal
which read Welcome The Oceanic
Returned the salute and sgnaled sI3on
voyage
The Battery. as the Oceanic neared 1t
was thronged. From the top of the
Bowling Green building. in which struc-
ture are located the offices Of the White
| star line, big flag of the company was
| displayed The White Star pier at the
foot Of Eleventh street ana adjoining
! bulkheads were black wthpeople when
the Oceanic came by. SIX tugs helped
her into her slip. Gang planks were got
lover, and then there was the usual pier
scene when a big liner is landing her
! passengers and long parted friends
meet again.
In the vast volume Of The Oceanic are
lmet all the fruits of the progress Of
modern ship building that have been
garnered by man since the Atlantic was
4 first traverseG by steam in 1919 The
1 tremendous carrying capacity of this
4 colossus of ships may be imagined when
one is Informed that the Oceanic could
put a girdle around the earth. steaming
i at the rate of twelve knots an hour,
! without once stopping for coal. More
specifically. she is capable of travelling
! 2a40D knpts-the equivalent of this
Iearth's acknowledgements draw only
on the supply of fuel that can be stored
Iwthin her cayernous NAV. This. too
4 without in any manner cramping he,
other stores or infringing on the spaces
left for stock or anmuntion--for this
Oceanic is so constructed that she may
be converted into d cruiser at the vii
of the British admiralty.
OF course. the Oceanic is in every way
superior TO what once was that gigantic
; failure, the Great Eastern. She is no
only larger than the prototype of julie!
y Nerne's Floating City but she is a!
much in advance OF that unwieldl
barge as present-day mechanics AM
lpresent-day electrical continuance ar,
, beyond the status of those arts in III,
day when the Great Eastern hoated.
Ii set on end and placed side by sid
with the Washington monument. tn,
pride of the White Star fleet would tow
er nearly $50 feet above the apex OF tn
great shaft reared TO the father of tn
republic.
The Great Eastern measured SOL fee
along it's length and the Oceanic 10
!, feet. The old ship displaced 1854 ton
/, Of waited and the new displaces II, 80
/, tons. Laden, the Oceanic will weigh IS.
/, 600 tons, or 3G9O tons in excess of he
!, historic predecessor. In linear aspec
: the Oceanic differs from the Grea
! Eastern in that she is 1.-the, graceful
!, land SO constructed as to conceal unde
Iher ariness AMI gently sweeping curve
r the mighty mass up-buoyed by tn
q water. Again, she does not rear so hig
/. above the sea line and her Mario,
i beam deceptively offsets her extrem
i length.
Everything that skill and inventio
: could do to make modern passenge
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