MAMMOTH LINER.
AGUITANIA'S HUGENESS. '.Times-Sydney San Special Cable.) LONDON, November Hi. The task" of putt i thi' colossal machinery into the hupp flinard liner Aquitania, has been coinm<Qi-ed at Clydebiuik. It includes six turbines we.ighi'rig 1.40U tons, while the auxiliary engine in start them is sufficiently powerful to pro|x>l a small steamer. The water in the lioilprs would lenough '-■> flil S.-J.'ii) ordinary sized liarrels. Karli of the liner's four smokestacks is larjrf enough to permit of the passape of a. vessel the size of the (.'omet. one of the first steamships.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 279, 22 November 1913, Page 5
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