The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-05-23
CRAFT has ELEVEN DECKS
Its Length is 900 Feet, 20 Feet
Longer Than the Olympic
AMERICAN TIMBER is USED
Two Million Feet Of Oregon Fir in
Decks-Fitted in Luxuri-
Gus Style.


Berlin. May PA party of distin =
guished engineers. newspaper repre-
sentatives and others left here today
for Stettin, the guests of the Ham
burg American Steamship company to
attend the launching OF the company's
new liner Imperator. The new vessel.
which Is larger than any craft anoat,
is To be launched tomorrow from the
yards of the Vulcan Shipbullding com
pany on the Elbe. The ship viii prob
ably be ready TO make her first trans
Atlantic voyage early next winter.
The lmperator is designed to eclipse
all previous records of ocean grey
hounds for size and splendor. She is
TO be about 90 feet longer than the
olympic and her sister ship. the ill
fated Titanic. and will have a dis
placement exceeding those vessels by
about 5000 tons The length of the I'M
perator over all will be 900 feet. and
when complete and fully laden she will
displace about 10000 tons. There will
be eleven decks on the new liner. and
she will be fitted out in the most lux
urious style.
A veritable Palace AHost.
The deck OF the new liner will
have the beam Of Broadway. New
York's leading thoroughfarc. at its
widest purt--96 feet. Nine of her
eleven decks will be above the water
lire, equal tc the height of the lare-
est apartment houses. II the Impcra-
tor were set up on end beside the ca
thedral of Coiopne, the famous tower
would como only to the second funnel
of the steamship. Nearly 1000 600 feet
of Oregon fin were USED for her decks
alone
With so much space available feat
ures are possible that have never be-
fore been introduced. There will be
promenade deck nearly a quarter
of a mile long a great entertainment
han two stories high, holding 700
guests, q conversation room, a smok-
lng room, ladies hall, a winter gar.
den RitZ-Carlton restaurant, a repro
duction OF ancient Roman baths Ia
bronze, marble and IVORY. rathskeller,
womens salons In different decorative
periods and national styles. universal"
telephones, the biggest gymnasium yet.
tunning track OF tan bark squash
court, submarine signals and powerful
air pumps to waft below currents OF
the present air and afford equablo
tempeia turc throughout
No Scssiel<ness Aboard.
The imporator wiz wi u completed,
not only be the largest nssel In the
world, but win in addtc insure her
passengers against the terrors OF sea-
sickness. This happy condition is To
be brought about by the installation
OF the Frahn decks on board the new
Goliath Of the Ocean" a device that
reduce the motion of u ship to "a mini
mum II has been tried out by the
hamburg American Line on a small
ship and. so 1t Is averred. has reduced
the oscillation in heavy weather from !
% To degrees.
The new liner will not he a fast BOAT. |
being built more for solid comfort than
great speed. Her time across the At
Iantic viii be in the neighborhood Of
seven days. Her engines will be of
the reciprocating type.
1t goes without saying that the COM
pany Is preparing to equip the Inn
perator with a sufficient number OF life
Ooats to accommodate ali of the pas
Sepgers aud crew, numbering altogeth-
" ABOUT 5000 persons The most pow
erful Marconi apparatus ever set up at
sea viii be installed on the vessel, the
unusual height OF her masts making II
possible to receive or transmit mes
sages across the broad cxpanse 0f the
"tiantic ocean. II Is expected that she
VIII always be In direct communication
win either Europe or America.
Comparative Table Of Liners.
Name, Date, Length and Tonnage.
respectively:
Great Eastern. 1858. $50 feet. $4,000;
Britannia. 1874. 455 feet. $500.
unrbria. 1885, 500 feet, 1O.500.
Campania. 1893 500 feet. 1900.
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse. 1892.
VS. feet. 20,s00.
deutschland. 1900. 662 feet. $4,000.
Kaiser Wilhelm H., 1903 67S feet,
$4,000.
Adriatic. 1907 T25 feet. $4,000.
Lusitania- 1907. 100 feet. $1,000.
olympic, 1910. sS2 feet. i5.s24.
hmperator, 1912, 900 feet, $4,000.