WORLD'S BIGGEST SHIP.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 190, 12 August 1922, Page 17

WORLD'S BIGGEST SHIP.

■ WIKELESS EVEN IN THE LIFEBOATS. Even experienced Transatlantic travellers, accustomed to the luxury and vastness of great liners, will be deeply impressed by the siie and magnificence of the White Star liner Majestic (formerly the German Bismarck), the largest liner in the world, which started recently on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York via Cherbourg, says the "Daily Mail." The Majestic is 956 ft long and has a gross tonnage of 56,000. Her oil-burning engines can develop 100,000 h.p., and by burning oil she can carry sufficient fuel for the round trip as against one-way coal bunkering. The laTgest of the three wireless stations can -maintain communication with land throughout the voyage. Anti-rolling tanks have been provided to minimise the discomfort caused by rolling. The lifeboats include two motorboats fitted with -wireless. There is accommodation for 4000 passengers of three classes. One of the most interesting devices in the Majestic is the hold fire indicator in the fire alarm station near the bridge, where there will always be a watchman on duty when the ship is at sea. This is a cabinet which has a series of small open-mouthed tubes, like small ventilators. Each of these tubes is inscribed I with the name of a certain hold or other | part of the vessel and is connected to the place indicated by an air pipe. Suction , takes place continually in the pipes, and ! as- a result any smoke in the place to I which the pipe leads comes out of the mouth of the tube. The efficiency of the device was shown lin the Berengaria before the war, when lon outbreak occurred in the ship at New York.