Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-03-07
NEW CUNARDER
MAMMOTH ship
New Liner AcquiIania Expect.
ed 10 be Ready for Launch
Ing in -Four Weeks
Will Have 5000 Tons More
Tonnage Than Largest Ship
That IS Now AfIOat
Especial to The Tribune.)

(SpeCIdI 70 inc tFIOuUc.)
GLASGOW, March 6.-During the
past few months the work OF building
the new Cunard liner Aquitania has
proceeded SO rapidly that her build
ers, the firm of John Brown and Com.
pany, of Clydebank. expect to have
her ready for launching in about four
weeks. Owing to the extraordinary
size of the vessel the Clyde river is
being deerened and widened opposite
the shipyard, in anticipation of the
launching.
1t is many years since there was the
same amount of interest attached to
the building of a new liner for trans
portation service as is shown in the
A~quitania. This interest is due almost
wholly to the extreme size Of the YES
sci. In her present condition on the
slips at Clydebank she presents a won
derful spectacle, appearing something
like an eleven-storied skyscraper in
the course Of construction.
The Aquitania will have a gross ton
mage Of $4,000 tons, or 5000 tons great
er than the Olympic, the largest ship
now afloat. The Aquitania and the
Hamburg-American liner. lmrerator,
now building at Stettin, will have the
| same gross tonnage, though i'll other
! measurements the Cunarder will
! eclipse the German vessel. The di'
mansions Of the Aquitania are 1855 feet
length and 95 feet beam, while those
Of the Imeparator are 40 feet elngth
and 80 feet beam.
Ever since the contract for the Aqu''
tan:a was awarded to the C%lydebank
builders in December. 1910, it has
been generally known that the new
vessel was to be the largest ship ever
built: but it has not been generally
realized how very much larger tho
ship was to be than any OF the huge
liners which have excited wonder II
the past by their great proportions
As already stated the new vessel vii
have a much greater tonnage than the
White Star liners Olympic and bel
sister ship, the ill-fated Titanic. Those
racord-breakers of but a few years age
the Baltic and the Adriatic, length ~!
feet and tonnage $4,000 and $4,000 re
spectively, are not to he compared
with the A%quitania.
Brought to land, the Aquitanls
would dwarf great works of which
man has long been prone to boast
! The Washington monument in thk
United States capitol, whose $50 feet
was for years the worlds record fol
high construction, would make only
a fair prop for the new steamer lean
ing against it. The big thing of the
sea would overtop the famous Wool
worth building in New York city by
more than 100 feet.
The Speed Of the new vessel will be
about 2: knots an hour. This is con
! siderably less than the records o.
some of the transatlantic liners nov
in service, but is considered fast
enough for all practical purposes. The
interior furnishings and decorations o.
the AQuitania are planned on the most
lavish scale, and she will in every wa
merit the description OF a floating city
! She will have accommodations for G5l
first class passengers, 740 second class
| and 2400 steerage passengers. Ho"
treaty the new vessel viii exceed al
others in the nature Of the passenger
accommodations is shown by the fact
that the first class staterooms are te
! be 80 per cent larger than the custom
airy size.
With so much space available fea
lures are possible that have never be
fore been introduced. There will be
a choice OF dining rooms, a restau
rant, grill. tea room, tea garden, rath
skeller, palm gardens, women's salons
in different decorative periods, swim