The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-08
. THE TITANIC WAS ;
FLOATING PALACE ;

nshed by the officers OF the White
Star line at the time Of the Titanic's
launching, on June 10, 1911.
This description, which also em-
braced the sister ship Olympic was
as follows:
In the White Star lines new
triple-screw steamers Olympic and
Titanic are epitomized all the science
and skill of a century Of steam navi-
CATION. The same spirit which actu-
ated the White Star line in introduce
ing into the Atlantic passenger trade
the steamers Oceanic, the first steam
er to surpass the length of the Great
Eastern-Celtic, Cedric, Baltic, and,
latterly, the giant Adriatic-has pro-
duced these new surprising ships
Figures speak most concisely and
eloquently of the supremacy of the
Olympic and Titanic but the follow
ing table records a remarkable ad-
vance in the dimensions of these lat
est and greatest conquerors of Nep-
tune:
Tonnage, registered, $4,000; ton
mage displacement, $4,000; length
over ALL SS2 feet 6 inches; breadth
over all, 80 feet 6 inches; breadth
over boat deck, "a feet; height from
bottom of keel to top of captains
house, 1O5 feet inches; height OF
tunnels above casing, 70 feet; height
of tunnels above boat dec, 81 feet
6 inches; distance from top of fun
mel to keel, ITS feet; number of steel
decks, II; number of watertight bulk.
heads, ID; passengers carried, $500;
crew, $50
while referring to these numeri-
cal details, it might be we'll to point
out that the largest plates employed
in the hull are 26 feet long, weigh
! ing four and a half tons each, and
the largest steel beam used is 90 feet
! long, the weight of this double beam
being four tons.
Further, the colossal rudder, op-
Grated electrically, weighs 100 tons;
the anchors 1874 tons each, the
center (turbine) propeller, % tons,
and each of the two wing propellers
3S tons.
The huge after Oossarms,' from
which are suspended the three pro-
peller shafts, tip the scales at 73h
tons, and the forward 'bossarms at
As tons. 1t is also interesting to note
that each link in the anchor chains
weighs IT'S pounds In each ship the
unusually large number Of sidelights
and windows-over 2OOO-add much
to the brightness and cheerful effect
of the public rooms and passenger
cabins.
"As already intimated nothing has
been left to change in the construc-
ton of these superb ships, and be-
sides being the largest and heaviest
vessels ever built, they are also I'M
the strongest
Their towering bulls are moulded
to battle against the seven seas, and
boast, in each ship, the presence OF
three million rivets (weighing about
1900 tons) holding together the solid
plates of steel. To insure stability in
binding the heavy plates in the dou-
BILE bottom of each ship half mil
lion rivets, weighing about go tons,
have been used.
THE whole of the plating of the
bulls has been riveted by hydraulic
power with an almost entire absence
Of the usual deafening noises, new
type seventeen riveting machines, sus-
pended from travelling cranes, having
accomplished this work quickly and
we'll.
"The double bottom referred to ex-
tends the full length of each vessel,
from feet inches to feet
3 inches in depth and lends added
strength to the hull. The subdivision
of the hulls of the Olympic and Til
tanic into fifteen compartments sep
arated by watertight bulkheads of
steel further assures safety OF the
vessels.
"The gigantic size of these steam.
ers is best appreciated when It is re-
called that in length each vessel over
tops by 1921 feet the height of the
Metropolitan tower in New York
the highest office building in the
world, and 1921 feet beyond the
height Of the new Woolworth build
ing now under construction.
Each ship being four times as long
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