Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-11-30
Misesllausuus 8eaains.
MONSTER LINERS.
New Trans Atlantic Boats to Carry
Five Thousand Persons.

L
tania and Lusitania. The tonnage OF
each of these is $4,000 tons; that Of
each of the new White Star boats Is to
be $4,000 tons, and possibly more.
Among the Belfast shipyard workmen
these great vessels have been known
for months past as the mystery ships,
because of the extraordinary precau-
tions which have been taken to pre-
vent their dimensions and design be-
| coming public property. Something
however, may now be said on these
points.
! The new steamers will be completed
about the end Of next year, and Will
go on the Southampton-New York
service in the following spring. They
will be by far the largest in the world,
and in equipment and decoration will
be the finest on the water. The new
vessels will have displacement of Co.
900 tons. They are to be about $40
feet long, with beam Of 80 feet, and
the boat deck will be more than 60
feet above the water.
Neither the Olympic nor the Titanic
will be high-power boats, nor are their
lines designed for great speed. Twen-
ty-one knots being the average aimed
at, as against the twenty-five OF the
| Cunarders. An immense amount OF
space, which in fast boats is devoted
to machinery, will thus be saved for
cabin accommodation. The carrying
capacity Of the great boats will exceed
that Of any afioat today by at least
one third. Each steamship will carry,
under normal conditions, more than
| 5000 persons all told.
The crew will be the largest ever
employed on one merchant ship-more
| than 600 in all. The monster new liner
will have nine steel decks. The steam
ers are not only designed to eclipse
every thing else as yet achieved
in the passenger shipbuilding as
regards the size but in their novelty
of equipment as we'll. There will be
larger entrance hall, a spacious din
ing room, smoking room, library, VIC
mems parlor grill, and lounging rooms,
elaborately furnished to the last de-
tail.
One Of the upper decks is to be COM
pletely inclosed to serve as BALLROOM
or skating rink. By day this iHelosure
may be used as sun parlor. and prom
enade. It will be large enough to
accommodate several hundred passen-
gers. In planning the cabins Of the
new liners, the luxuries OF the most
up to- date hotels have been kept in
sight, and even improved upon. These
boats will offer not only extended
suites Of rooms. but complete flats.
which will make it possible to cross
the Atlantic while enjoying all the pri-
vacy Of ones own home.
The Olympic and Titanic will be the
first steamers to offer cabins with pri-
vate shower baths attached. In add
tion, there will be great swimming
bath aboard both the Olympic and the
Titanic, '"r-~ enough to permit Of div
ing. A gymnasium, the largest and
most completely equipped afloat, will be
found on each Of the new boats. the
main dining saloon, which will seat
more than 600 passengers, will be the
largest single cabin on the ship, and
in its furnishing and decoration the
most elaborate. Should guest tire Of
this apartment in the week he is at
sea, he can wander from one cafe to
another enjoying practically as much
variety as he might ashore.
A veranda cafe will be built on one
Of the upper decks far astern, looking
out over the sea, and about fifty feet
above the water The decorations and
general management will carry out the
idea Of the open-air cafes Of southern
Europe. The cafe will be erected with
exposed rafters entwined with vines,
and the sides will be latticed effects,
to make the illusion Of a cafe at the
seaside as complete as possible.
Another novelty will be grill room.
The cabin will suggest an old English
chop house, with highbacked stalls of
ancient oak, and broad, low tables. 1t
will be possible at any hour of the
day or night for passenger to use the
grill room. The palm garden will be
still another refuge for those who wea-
ry Of the confines Of the ship during
the passage.
A garden will be located on the sun
deck, and in the winter months will be
protected by a glass roof. Here will
be found, perhaps, the most complete
illusion Of the hotel ashore. There will
be arbors artfully contrived to give the
effect Of gardens covered with vines
and flowers. The childrens room of
the liners will be the most sumptuous
apartment of it's kind ever attempted.
The new liners will be as complete
in their stately devices as in their luxu-
rious equipment. Each boat will be
divided into upward of thirty steel
compartments separated by heavy
bulkheads. An automatic device on
the bridge will control all these heavy
steel doors, making it possible for Il
single hand to close them all in case of
will be electrically connected with a
chart on the bridge, and will be repre-
sented by small electric lights. When
one Of these doors closes, the light will
burn red. The officer on the bridge will
thus be able to see at a glance if all
the compartments are closed. Still an
other set of safety devices will guard
against fire in every part of the ship.
A combination of turbine and recip-
rocating engines will propel the YES
sells. 1t is expected that great econ
omy of coal will be effected by this
arrangement. The berths in Harlan1
4 VOLTS yards, at Belfast, in which
these wonderful ships are being built.
are each 1000 feet long. and capable OF
bearing a dead weight of $4,000 tons.
The Olympic is expected to be ready