The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-06-27
HUGE iron ship
The Biggest Steamship Ever Built Reach
ed NV York On Thursday.
Is FLOATING PALACE

Us FLOATING PALACE
Nearly Nine Hundred Feet Long and
VIII Accommodate Nearly Four
Thousand People-FIas Every De-
vice for Safety Known to Modern
Marine Science.
Ponderous and palatial, the larg-
est and. most luxurious ship alloa:,
the White Star Liner Olympic swept
smoothly into New York Harbor re
Gently, completing without mishap
her maiden transatlantic trip. She
'ecaived warm welcome, thousands
of people being on the dock to see
her come in.
The Olympic left Southampton at
noon Wednesday, June IA. She CALI
ed at Cherboarg and Queenstown.
Her arrival within seven days OF
her departure from Southampton, in
cluding stops at two intermediate
ports, is in itself worthy feat for
slip of Eer size and type. Shipping
len say 1t proves the Olympic may be
depended On ss "six-day liner.
The Olympic was launched Oct. 20,
1910, from The yards Of Harland &
Wolff at belfast. Fer principal di-
melisions are: Length over all, 882
feet 3lnches; beam, 94 feet; height
from keel to boat deck, 81 feet, and
from bolton Of keel to top Of Cap
ANS house, 105 feet six isches;
kejgtlth OF tunnels above deck, 81 1-2
feet; number of steel decks, 10;
number of water-tight bulkheads, IN
tull, is.
The Great Eastern, which came Or.
in 1858, was a 7e0-foot ship, and The
Mauretania is an 800-footer. The
Olympic practically marks the era Of
the 900-foot ship. The displacement
o. the Mau: etania Is 45,0uh tons,
that of the Olympic 10000 tons.
The bridge deck promenade on the
lew giant is $50 feet long. To go
around it five times means you have
walked more than mile.
The ship has. $50 first class state.
rooms, 100 OF them being for a sin
gle occupant only. The suites are
finished in a dozen different styles Of
art. They range from $1,000 To- ST.
LEO for, a trip. ...,.
TIE full capacity Of the new mar.
vel Of the Atlantic is 3,700 persons.
She might be called good sized
watering place. She can carry $50
first class, 500 second class and 1900
third class passengers. Her crew
numbers 856 and there are 63 per-
sons in the navigating department,
322 in the engineers and All In
the commissary department.
Every device for safety known to-
modern marine science is provided.
The ships double bottom extends the
whole length of the vessel, varying
from feet inches to feet g.
inches and containing ballast tanks
that add to the stability.
Eilge keels save her from rolling.
One of the most interesting features
Is the combination Of reciprocating
and turbine engines. The two sets
of reciprocating engines are Of 30,-
O0o horse power and the turbine
engine, which uses the exhausted
steam from the reciprocating machin-
cry, is of $1,000 horse power. The
turbine engines of the Muretania are
Of $4,000 horse power, but the build
ers of The Olympic did not design q
racing ship.
The Olympic's turbine engine
turns the middle propeller beneath
the rudder, is designed TO offset the
vibration caused by reciprocating en-
gines, to Increase the speed OF the
vessel, to facilitate her in backing,
and to economize steam and coal. In
manoeuvring the ship Capt. Smith
may cut Cut the turbine.
After the Olympic was planned Bel
fast had to build the biggest dry
dock in the world. Southampton
had to spend nearly half million
dollars in dredging a channel for
her, and an English railroad had to
take all other trains off the track and
remove part Of the stations alons the
line to permit locomotive and sim
gle car bearing the immense frame
work for the three propellers, to pass
from an inland foundry to the
coast.
New York had to extend a pier
temporarily to accommodate her anu
Harland 6. Wolf had to build a new
and gigantic plant. one of the most
wonderful features Of which was
new type OF seven-ton riyeting ma
chine, suspended from travelling
cranes, which pinned the plates TO-
gether without the usual ear-destrey-
isg racket.