The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-25
.. 5. WILL BUILD
GREATEST LINERS
1000 Foot Boats, Carrying
5000 Passengers, Will Cross
in Four Days.
SPECIAL HARBOR 0N1. !.
Sea Walls and Great Terminal
at Fort Pond Bay Will
Be Constructed.
SPECIAL HARBOR 0N1. !.

WAsHlNGToS. July 24.--Two gigantic
ocean liners larger than any ships now
af1ost and designed to cross the Atlantic
in four days. are to be built by the
shipping Board. They will be 1.ooo
feet long and of thirty knots speed and
will be equipped for use as commerce
destroyers In tho event of war
Announcement was made to-day by
the board that plans for the ships had
been completed and that work on them
would be started in the near future. 1t
is proposed 10 provide a special termt-
nal for them at Fort Pond Bay. L. l..
and II may be that two similar liners
will be constructed later.
The ships, which are TO be built un-
der the supervision of the Navy Depart
nent, will be fifty feet longer than the
famous Leviathan. now the largest ship
sfoat and viii have a gross tonnage OF
$1,000. Their draft will be 80 feet,
depth - feet. beam 102 feet and accom-
modRtions will be provided for 1000
saloon passengers, 500 second cabin pas
sergers and 1900 steerage passengers.
The crew will number 1000 officers
and men and, tlr ships will be OF the
oil burning type. with n cruising radius
of 1000 miles. which will enable them
TO complete a round trip on the Atlantic
without loading fuel overseas They VIII
be driven by four propellers on which
viii be thrown the strength OF 10000
horse power.
In order that the vessels may be con-
vnrted into commerce destroyers in time
OF war. gun emplacements will be built
On the decks, and the afterdeck will bc
constructed with a view OF Transforming
II into a landing and launching space
Eos seaplanes.
Construction OF terminal AT Fort
Pond Bay. Montauk Point. will represent
a large outlay. but the boards announce
ment said great natural depth harbor
, "as provided there and that in addition
the location woull reduce the voyage
to Plymouth. England. by lis miles, the
dlstanc' being ISIS miles. as compared
with 1896 miles from New York city.
Another advantage in using Fort Pond
Bay, the announcement said. would be
The relieving Of congestion In NcW York
Harbor. The plans provide TO- double
= acking OF the present raii:oad from
Montauk Point to New York, 50 as to
care for the passengers and freight han
died by the new liners.
Other improvements NECESSARY at Mon
tauk Point will be sea walls - protect
the ships from northwest gales and r
Gust m house and Immigration station,
as we'll as wharves and warehouses.
Next to the Leviathan the la gest
ship now afioat is the 1,nperator of ST.
$50 gross tons, which is now used as an
Am arican transport and watch uti-
nateiy will be turned over to Great
Britain Her speed is only about %
! knots. The largest British liner aioat
is the New Britannia OF 4s,l5S gross
tons.
Plans for the great American liners
were formulated at a meeting of naval
constructors and private, builders and
Chairman Hurley has recommended TO
! Secretary Daniels that the construction
be supervised by a committee to be COM
posed OF Rear Admiral David w. Taylor.
chief of the bureau OF construction. as
chairman: Homer l.. Ferguson. presi-
dent % the Newport News Shipbuildlng
and Dry Dock Company: Joseph ".
, Powell. president OF the Fore River
! Shipbuiiding Company. y. A. Neeland,
president of the New York Shipbuildng
| Company; II. @. Null. president of the
cramps Shipbuilding Company, and w
| + Gibbs OF the International Mercantile
Marine.