The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-07-14

three kingdoms, or for the nlat- ter of that, in the world. Standing on the forecastle, in the very eyes ot this leviathan, a smile helped by the huge eyelike hawserholes, the ground was li5 feet beneath, and you looked down upon joiners' shops, blacksmiths shops' upon ships commencing and ships con- pleting, upon docks and wharyes, the engineering works, but so dwarted in this bird's-eye view as to suggest the pieces on a chess-board. And lappng the stern of the 'Lusitania' was the Clyde, as if anticipating the honor of receiving and bearing to the sea the swiftest and mightiest of the long sue eession. of ocean liners which have owned it's banks as their birthplace.
 THE UEVIATHAN'S HULL.
 The hull of the 'Lustania,' as she glided down the ways and gracefully took her plunge into the Clyde, or rather the wider stream, where Clyde meets Cart, was over 16,00O tons which exceeds all previous launching weights. By the time she is completed in engine, boiler and passenger accommodation, ithis weight will have increased almost 100 per cent. while ready for sea with water in her boilers, her stores aboard, and hec 1000 ton bunkers filled, her weight without cargo will be approxi mately 45,OO0 tons. In the modern ship the first structural work after the keel plate is laid is the double, bottom. The keel plate of the 'Lusitania' is , feet wide and 3% inches thick and is flush Loutside with the bottom of the ship. Associated with this flat keel Is a verti- cal kecl feet high and one inch thick, and to this vertebra are attached directly or indirectly the frames and beams which make up the skeleton of the leviathan.
 | The double bottom is divided by a vertical keel five feet high, and trans verse frames, into compartments in which water ballast may be carried. The tops of these tanks are carried well round the turn of the bilge, so that should the bilge keels be torn away and the hull pierced the entering wa ter would be confined between the inner and outer bottoms This is only one precaution in the direction of securing i unsinkability, The lower deck is made completely watertight. Below it are the lower orlop and orlop decks, and above are the main, upper, shelter, pro- menade, upper promenade and boat nine decks in all It is necessary of course, that there should be means oi l communication between one water tight compartment and those contigu. ous, and on the "Lusitania," as or board the "Caronia" and "Carinania, these communicating doors at or below the water line are a special type, and can be closed automatically from the navigating bridge, and that in q few seconds. In all the ''Lusitania" vii have 175 watertight compartments, SC that it may be claimed for her that sh, is as unsuitable as ship can be.
 The steel plates which cover the rib! or framing of the. vessel or are used foi the deck, bulkheads and castings or il | other ways number 26000, the larges
 being about 40 feet in length and weig ing from 4to , tons
 ' To secure these plates to each othei and the structural framework of tn ship, over 100000 rivets have beer used, aggregating in weight about 50 tons. The largest rivets are used il the keel plate, and these are eigh inches in length, and weigh 2& lbs, II fact, everything about the ship Is o
 Brobdingnagian dimensions. The naii frames and beams placed end to enc