WORLD'S BIGGEST SHIP.
VATERLAND'S MAIDEN VOYAGE. (Per Independent Cable Service) BERLIN May 18. The British press representatives who are travelling by the HarburgAmerican linor Vaterland on her maiden voyage, have telegraphed' to the Kaiser felicitating him on the fact 1 that the biggest steamship yet built flies the German flag:. , The . Vaterland is a vessel of 50,000 I tons, and i 5 the largest ship in the ! world. She carries 83 lifeboat, 70 of which may be launched from either side of the leviathan.
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Grey River Argus, 28 May 1914, Page 2
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84WORLD'S BIGGEST SHIP. Grey River Argus, 28 May 1914, Page 2
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