VATERLAND AT NEW YORK.

Press, Volume L, Issue 15017, 11 July 1914, Page 13

VATERLAND AT NEW YORK.

DIPI-TCULTIES" IN' EnOCKING. / After a four hotrrs'.'fight against wind and, time, __H after demoralising the traffic of of the lower reaches of the Hudson river, tho great liner Vaterland was (says -the - New York 00-iespond-snt of the "Standard") -finally, docked with the. aid-of.-25; tugs <m: Saturday afternoon. May 23rd. The trouble of the". 950 ft leviathan began' when sho' arrived opposite ■ her pier at Hobokpn .at t " 9.30. ij-. Fifteen- tugs stajted to swing her round at right angles to guide her into tho slip, when a barge in v tow; got,between. her and• the. pier, and the Vaterland had to. drift down stream to prervent a collision. * *'•*;-■ Then she tried again, but wind and tide exerted ah enormous infiuenoo on her great body, and tbe tugs.failed to farce'her into the s 6lip. Another, attempt also failed, when ten more .tugs' were added, and' they: finally got * the Vaterland into dock at USO. The usual time for docking an ocean liner is'less than .an hour.

Feny boat schedules-were di-arraagied by the: Vaterland's difficulties, and many other craft were inoonvenienoed by the monster boat's _nwieldine_s. . • ituser declares that' the. Vaterland ia very easily handled, but his eulogy obviously applies to midooean.. . ■ '.'<•-

The depart**--- of .the Hamburg-Amerika liner. Vaterland from hew lork oh Tu-sd-y, M_y -36th, was accompanied by extraordinary mcidents. As soon as, the bow oi the vessel was cl__r of the : dock' she gave what is described .as. a "quipk rush," towards piers NOS.-50 and No. 51, belonging-to the Morgan Line, on the New York side of the river.-The action of her immense screws literally sucked the* water out-of these slips, breaking the moorings of the steamers Elvalle and Topila. One barge; filled with 1700 tons of coal overturned and was sunk by the wash. The ElyaJJe; and Topila dashed against the pier bulkhead-, damaging their sterns. The_ New _ork cori-«epo_d__t of "*"" - Times" says the ft Vaterland finally proceeded on . hf" voyage after. inflictjng dam-g- esti» mated* at about £6000.