Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-07-28
IS AN OCEAN MONARCH
NEW STEAMER DEUTSCHLAND
one OF FINEST AFL0AT
Smaller Than Wilhelm der Crosse
But Faster. --latest Success in
Modern Ship Building
PaIatial Rooms.

Following Is clipping from late
San Francisco paper, describing the
Deutschland, the steamer thta recently
established new record from ply
mouth to New York and beat the Kai.
ser Wilhelm der Crosse:
The Deutschland may be fairly said
to represent the last word in modern
shipbuilding, and is conceded to be the
finest passenger steamship ailoat. In
size she is second only to the monster
Oceanic, though the latter only exceeds
her slightly in length. In the appoint
ments, however, she is simply unsur-
passed, and the hackneyed term float
ing palace" may be truthfully said to he
the Only fitting term to apply to the
Deutschland. Her measurements con-
vey more graphically than can words
some idea of the immense power Of this
great greyhound. She is $50 feet long,
only few feet less than the Great
Eastern and twice the size of Dewey's
Olympia; G7Ia feet in width, and has n
depth of A feet.
The ship has been fitted with every
convenience known to ocean travel,
and her appointments are models of
luxury and beauty. All the interior
| decorations are in hard wood. and In
| spite of their necessarily somewhat
| limited space the berths of the first
and second cabins rival the best rooms
| of modern hotel in their beauty and
completeness. Every room Of the first
and second class is provided with COM
pletc bath accommodations The ship
is lighted and heated with electricity
throughout, even in the steerage, and
FIVE great dynamos furnish the power
for 1000 lamps. In the stern is fully
equipped ice-making machine. with a
capacity of 800 pounds daily. The keel
OF the Deutschland was laid in July,
1897.
In gaining speed and capacity the
builders of the Deutschland have not
neglected that other paramount requi-
site. safety, and have bent every effort
to develop q craft which shall be ALSO
lutely seaworthy and able to outrldc
the sevcrest gale that Father Neptune
can conjure up. The compartment sys-
TEN is used, though in a modified aud
perfected form, and in every part OF
the ship are placed the most modern
, life preservers. Sixty-six big life boats
thoroughly provisioned and able to sus
tain twenty-five people for week, arr
: placed at convenient points On the mp
per deck.
The Deutschland Is destined as :
competitor of the North German
! Lloyd's Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse, bu
/. she is expected to beat the latter shil
| in all essential particulars. He
/ length over all is 6s4 feet, her beam g.
feet, nodded depth A feet, displace
: ment, loaded, 23,2OO tons. Her draugh
iS estimated at 80 feet, and her spec
, at twenty-three knots. She Is able I,
}. carry 1857 passengers and a crew o
[ 525 men. Her cost was $685., 900, AM
In time of war she will be at the serylc
of the German Government Her rn.l
der and steering gear are protected an
under her water line. She has doubl
bottom extending the entire length
which Is divided into twenty-four com
y partments. Il is said that If two ad
|, joining compartments should all wit
k water the ship would not sink.
X 1t is a long way Ia the matter {
Il speed at least between the magnificar
y big flyers of today and the Great Eas
q ern, the monarch of her time, and
e some respects of all time to date. TT
e Great Eastern, built in 1858, was eigl
's feet longer, thirteen and one-half 70,
10 deeper and of $50 tons more displac,
Ie ment than the Deutschland, but h
lie speed was eight and one-half kno
" slower. The Oceanic, built last yea
10 and which Is twelve feet longer thG
le the Great Eastern and twenty f.
/" longer than the Deutschland has
ie speed three knots less than the est