The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-13
OCEANIC ARRIVES.
Greatest Steamer Ever Built
Makes the Run On
Schedule.

NEW 4ORiA, sept. ID, lcS5-l ne itcW
White Star Line steamer Oceanic arrived
today from Liverpool and Queenstown,
but failed to exhibit any great speed. no
days run exceeded 500 knots. The steam
er is said to have made no attempt at
records or even great speed. The engines
were run throughout without hitch,
neither stopping nor slowing on the way,
and her builder, Rt. Hon. w. J. Pirrie,
who was on board said that the steamer
had come up to his expectations in every
particular and steamed through with a
large reserve of power which was not
brought to use. Also the firemen were
picked up on the last moment owing to
strike at Liverpool The Oceanic on ar
rival at Quarantine at the sound of a
bugle call draped the ship in flags. The
steam yacht Corsair ran down the bay
to meet the huge liner and her owner.
Commodore J. Pierpont Morgan, boarded
the steamer to meet his wife who was a
passenger.
Oceanic was sighted east of Fire Island
at 8 o'clock this morning as if by schedule
this being the day the company had an
nounced she wouI arrive. She left Queens
town at 12:45 P. M. last Thursday and es-
timating she win reach the lightship at
10 O. clock, the time of her passage will be
about days hours 1t is probable that
owing to her great draught she will not
attempt to cross the bar till high water,
which is at half past one this afternoon
at Sunday Hook, SO her appearance in the
upper bay can hardly be expected before
three o'clock.
The time made by the Oceanic may be
considered very good coming through the
heavy gals that have been reported on
the Atlantic during her passage and COM
pare favorably with that of the swiftest
of the ocean greyhounds in such weather,
bearing out the statement with her pow
erful engines great bulk, that she will
make regular schedule time regardless OF
weather conditions. As compared with
ocean records, however. there are half
a dozen steamers on the Queenstown
route westward are ahead Of her The
best of which is that Of the LucanSa, 8
days hours and % minutes and Teu-
tonic, 5 days 16 hours and 81 minutes, next
following being the Campania, Umbrla,
Majestic and Etruria.
The Oceanic is the largest vessel ever
built. She was launched at Belfast on
January IA last from the world famous
shipbuilding yards of Harland & Woln-
Her dimensions are 704 feet long, Y feet
feet BEAM and 6S feet depth, with draugh
Night Of % feet and loaded 321s feet. She
registers 1900 tons. Her engines were
designed to develop 1900 horse power.
Her coal capacity is about 5000 tons,
sufficient to take her around the world
at A 12-knot rate and she consumes about
500 tons of coal daily. She is rigged Win
three masts and is equipped With two
tunnels, each OF twenty feet aiametsI
and eighty feet above the fire CRATES, and
painted yellow with a black top. the dls-
tingilishi1g funnel .colors of the White
Star Line a.
cabin and / 600 steerage and she carrles
crew of 450 men. 1t was caIbled when
she sailed from Queenstown on the pres
ent trip. that she had on poara z,9a4 tp.a
other White Star steamers that the line
built a new dock on North River TO acs
commodate her. 1t has been occupied
by the line for about a year and has re-
Gently. had alterations to make it still
+ Her s.rs displaeemtn is 10000 tons. Com
est ship, ever built before her she is q
feet longer, and with horse power OF
over $1,000 greater. The Great Eastern, IN
measured $50 feet long, 50 feet beam and
had a draught of 80 feet. She registered
Is. 600 tons and her engines developed i,6ou
The The North German Lloyd flyer Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse. the next largest IN
size built two years ago. Is 64S feet long,
66 feet beam and 26 feet draugnt- Sne.
registers 14,e00 tons and has $4,000 horse
The Great Eastern had a steam pres
sure of twenty-five pounds to the, square
inch, while the Oceanic has ls2 me
mostly 10 feet long by 2 feet inches
wide. weighing S25 pounds, The plates Of
the Oceanic number 1900 the midship
wide and from / to 13s inches thick and
from tons to 81 in weight.