"WORLDS BIGGEST SHIP"

Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 56, 4 September 1916, Page 3

"WORLDS BIGGEST SHIP"

HERR BALLIN'S BOAST.

The correspondent of the Berlingske Tidende (writes the Copenhagen correspondent of the London Daily Chronicle on 30th June) has had an interview with Herr Ballin,. general manager of the Hamburg-Amerika Line, who says that his company is building the Bismarck, 56,000 tons, the world's greatest steamer, a turbine ship; the .Tirpitz, 30,000 tons, and three other; vessels of 22,000 tons each. Ati- the Vulcan Wharf, Bremen, there are building nine vessels, four of them having a carrying capacity of 18,000 tons, being the world's greatest freight steamers; and at the- wharf, Flensburg, two steamers of 13,000 tons,'and three larger passenger freight steamers are being constructed; whilst at Geestemundo two freight steamers of 17,000 tons each, for traffic through the Panama Canal, have been placed under construction. The Hamburger South American Line is building the Cap Polonio, a sister-ship to the auxiliary cruiser Cap Trafalgar. The Norddeutscher-Lloyd is building t\yo fastsailing steamers, the Columbus arid Hindenburg, 35,000 tons; the Munchen and Zeppelin, 16,000 tons- each, and twelve vessels of 12,000 tons each. . The Africa Line is constructing six, the Hansa Line eight, and the Cosmos Line ten, from 9000 to 13,000 tons.