Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-29
THE ATLANTIC SHIPS
STEADY INCREASE IN THE SIZE OF
THE VESSELS.
Various Policies Adopted for Gaining
Supremacy in Ocean Trans
portation.

United States Consul Diederich at Bre-
men. Germany. has contributed an inter
esting paper to the records Of the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor on the
growth of the steamship traffic of the At
lantic. Comparisons are made with sew
eral Of the great steamship lines and those
unfamiliar with marine commerce are en-
abled, by reading the article, to obtain a
good idea of the development of ocean
navigation. The report says that several
noteworthy events took place recently in
steamship navigation that aptly illustrate
the various policies adopted by leading
steamship companies at the present time
for gaining the supremacy in ocean trans
portation. One of them has started and
has now running on regular schedule on its
transatlantic line the largest ocean YES
sci af1oat. and the other has again sue
ceeded in breaking the record for speed
and in establishing once more it's claim of
having the heetest steamers in the world
while still another is bending all its en-
ergies to supply propelling machinery OF
an entirely new order, by means of which
1t hopes to outrfval both OF its old COM
petitors.
The Transatlantic Record.
The fast steamer Kaiser Wilhelm II left
New York for Bremen on June H. passing
Sandy Hook at SIP am. and Eddystone on
June 20 at Ito am. She thus broke all
former records and accomplished the re-
markable feat OF making 3,112 miles in five
days, eleven hours and fifty-eight minutes,
the average speed being 23.5S miles an hour
the quickest time ever made by any steam
er over this route. The best record made
In one day during this trip was 564 miles
covered on June Is.
The following is the record for speed
made at different times within the last
flyers: Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse, q knots;
kronprinZ Wilhelm. 2347 knots; Deutsch-
land, 23.51 knots; Kaiser Wilhelm H. 2SJS
knots
The Largest Vessel Afoat.
few weeks ago an immense steamer-in
fact, the largest afioat-was started on her
maiden trip from Liverpool to New York
1t is the Baltic. This new queen Of the
ocean is fresh from the yards of Messrs.
Harland and Wolff, at Belfast. and is 725
feet inches long, 10 feet on the beam. and
40 feet deep. Besides her crew she has ac-
commodations for $50 first-c1ass passengers.
260 second class and 2,400 people In the
Storage. She was built chiefly to carry
large amount of freight; in fact, she is
floating warehouse, her capacity exceed
ing 1,eO0,000 cubic feet, or room for a cargo
of about 2S,00o tons. Her two sets of quad
ripple expansion engines require only about
30 tons of coal a day to generate about
15,o0o horsepower. and to give her an aver
age speed of about seventeen knots
This monster of the deep has nine decks.
so that person standing on the sun deck
will be 80 feet above the keel; with the
steamer at its deepest draft (33 feeD he
Will still be 55 feet above the water.
1t Is interesting to compare this great
British leviathan, the Baltic dashinR along
in the North Atlantic lahe with other large
steamers. and to note the progress made,
step by step.
Steamer Jeuvtb