The St. Johns herald., 1899-11-18

rooms are 13 feet inches by 9 feet and the vessel surpasseS the widest cOncep- tions of Jules Verne's Floating City" Her speed on her trial trip was twenty three knots.
 The main saloon will accommodate $50 passengers at one sitting. There is accommodation for 40 first-class, 300 second-class and 1000 third-c.ass pas sengers. Besides the transients, ,le vessel will carry 300 in the crew, and when filled, in the season, she will have on board 2,100 souls. Used as a trans port the Oceanic could accommodate an army of 10000 men.
 The first steamship to cross the At lantic was the Savannah. an American ship built at COrlears Hook, on the East River, and launched Aug. 22, 1918. She was originally built for a sailing packet between New York and Liverpool, but was purchased before completion by William Scarborough & Co.,, of Savan- nah and fitted with machinery.
 The paddle wheels were so construct ed as to fold up and be stored on deck in stormy weather; the wheel was in- closed in canvas held in place by iron rims. Her model was considered fine and her passenger accommodations were thought elegant.
 She went to Savannah in 1919 and left that port for Liverpool May 26, 1919. She arrived in twenty-two days, having used her engine for fourteen days. She then went to St. Peters burg, returning to Savannah in Novem- Der, 1919. Her machinery was after wards taken out and she was convert ed into sailing packet. She ran some time between New York and Savannah, finally running ashore on Long Island. She was of 3S0 tons burden.
 The first ship to cross the Atlantic propelled all the way by steam was the Royal William a Canadian boat, built in 1883. Within the next decade the first iron transatlantic steamship was launched in England. This was the Great Britain, the forerunner of the Great Eastern, and designed by the same engineer, Brunei. This ship was provided with q screw propeller and crossed the sea in fifteen days at an average speed of nine knots an hour.
 It was the famous Cunard line which first established a regular transAtlan- tic service with regular dates of de parture The Britannia, the first of the four ships. left Liverpool on her maid en trip on July i, 1S40. and reached Boston on July 19. The Cunard Line made such inrOads on the business of the American packets that Congress, impelled by the clamor of American pa triOtiSm, granted a subsidy to E. k | Collins, of New York, for an American ! liIe between this port and Liverpool | The new vesSqlS were swifter and more | elegant than the Cunarders. and, like i the sailing ships of the old Collins line. | won many laurelS. The Cunard vessels ! stopped calling at Halifax, but in spite | of this were easily beaten by their : American competitors. The Pacific, of 1 the new line, made the passage from ! New York to Liverpool in less than ten days, her time in May, 1851, being 9 days 20 hours and 16 minutes. The i next year the Atlantic crossed in 9 days | 6 hours and IS minutes. The line, how ever, wound up with disaster. The Arctic was sunk by a collision in 1854 ! and went down with $40 souls. The Pacific left Liverpool the next year and was never heard from. The American