The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-14

OF zS.o1 knots for the entire trip.
The great Cunard liner. which has
thus broken the transatlantic record
on her maiden trip and fulfilled in
nearly every particular the expecta-
| tions Of her builders, is one of two the
Cunard line will. have. A sister ship
the Mauretania, is now building on
| the Clyde. OF them the Scientific
| American says:
| 1T is no exaggeration to state that
/ the new liners mark the most import
ant advance in size and speed which
| has ever been made in the history of
steam navigation-always excepting,
| of course, BruneFs giant ship, the
Great Eastern. With all due defer
/ ence to the Lucania and Campania,
| and the splendid ships of the German
companies, the Lusitania and Maure-
tal1ia may be said to be in a class by
themselves. With an indicated horse
power which will probably work out
at $4,000, with a displacement of $4,000
tons, and a probable speed, ultimate
ly. of rs 1-2 knots, these vessels, in
comparison with the finest of the ex-
press steamers, are found to be about
so per cent larger, knots faster, and
of double the horsepower of their
nearest competitor. The great breadth
of the Lusitania, of SO feet, has en-
abled the company to provide state
rooms of SO per cent. more capacity
than those found on existing steam
ships. The promenadeS, also, are wild
err and longer, and these facts, coupled
with the absence of vibration, viii do
much to increase the comfort of trans
atlantic travel.
'.As these ships have been built with
government assistance, they have been
so designed that they may be quickly
converted into fast cruisers, capable
of overtaking any merchant or war
ship af1oat. Each vessel will be armed
with twelve high-velocity 6-inch guns,
and will be considerably protected by
the great depth of her coal bunkers.
Hence they would be capable of put
ting up a stiff fight against any pro-
tected cruiser which they might en-
counter. The constructive features of
the ship are novel, and because of her
mammoth proportions are of unusual
interest. The keel plate is feet wide
and ga inches thick. The double
ships length, is 5 feet in depth. There
are nine decks in all, and the hull is
divided into IT'S separate water-tight
compartments, which, surely, estab-
fishes the claim that she is unsuitable
by any ordinary disaster. into the
construction of the hull entered 26,-
900 steel plates, the largest of which
are 48 feet in length and weigh IL
tons apiece. The main frames and
beams which form the skeleton of the
ship would, If placed end to end, ex-
tend for distance of 30 miles. To
riyet the plating upon the beams re-
quired 100000 rivets, whose aggregate
weight is 500 tons. The rudder weighs
IS tons, and the castings for the stem,
stern-post, shaft bracket, and rudder,
together weigh $50 tons. The ship
carries three lotion anchors, and 1900
feet of cable, the links of which meas
ure "a inches and are forged IF 81
inch iron. From the keel to the roof
of the pilot house, the Lusitania meas
ures 100 feet; and at her full draft 81
feet inches, she will displace $4,000
tons. Each of the four tunnels is "a
feet in diameter and extends 155 feet
above the grate-barS of the furnaces.
The extreme length of the ship over
all is 100 feet; the breadth. 88 feet; and
the plated depth, so feet. The Lusi-
tania will accommodate 2200 passen-
gers; and as she will carry crew of
500 her total complement is 5000 souls.