TRANSPORTS

Grey River Argus, 8 March 1918, Page 4

TRANSPORTS

_ ♦— - A LITTLE LIST. AMERICA USES GERMAN LINERS The property in America of the Hamburg- Amerika and Korth German Lloyds Steamship Companies, which is j about to be seized and sold by auction by the Acricau Government, must consist of buildings, onices, stores, etc., I for tbe vessels of the two companies which had been interned in New York and other Aemrican harbours on the outbreak of war were confiscated by the Government when America joined j the Allies. As it happened, no enemy j property in America could] have been more useful for America's purposes. Some time last year, probably not . very 1 long after the United States dc- \ clared war against Germany, the German military authorities, in a series of secret instructions to German news- j j papers, ordered that the view must be taken that it was impossible to bring five American divisions over sea by the end of 19.17. However difficult that task might have been, under normal circumstances, it was greatly facilitated by the ability of the American War Department to use, for purposes of transport, sixteen of the steamers belonging to the companies mentioned. The following is a list, in order of their size, of the German vessels which are now engaged in taking American troops across the Atlantic to fight the Germans. The original German and present American names are given (the ■latter in parentheses) and the capacity indicated: — Vaterland (Leviathan), 54,282 tons, SBOO officers, and men. George Washington, 25,570 tons, 4500 officers and men. Amcrika (America), 22,622 tons, -1500 officers and men. Cccile (Mt. Vcrnon), 19,503 tons, 3830 officers and men. Kaiser Wilholm 11. (Agamemnon), 19,301 tons, 3530 officers and men. President Lincoln (original name), 18.3(51 tons, 52tfO officers and men. President Grant (original name). 15,072 tons, .5200 officers and men. Cincinnati (Covington), 1(5.339 tons, 4000 officers and men. Grosse Kurfurst (iEolus), 13,102 tons, 3175 officers and men. Barbarossa (Mercury), 10,984. tons, 2620 officers and men. Prinzess Irene Pocahontas), 10,893 tons, 2540 officers and men. Fricdrich der Grosse (Huron), 10,771 tons, 2450 officers and men. Hamburg (Powhatan), 10,531 tons, 2100 officers and men. Rhein (Susequehanna), 10,05S tons, 200 Oofficers and men. Neckar (Antigone), 9835 tons, 2000 officers and men. Koenig Willieliii 11, (Madawasca), 9410 tons, 2200 officers nd men. Of these vessels, the Vate.land, Amcrika, President Lincoln, President Grant, Cincinnati, Hamburg, and Koenig Wilhelm 11., used to belong to the Hamburg-Amerika line, the other nine : to the North German Lloyd's Co. Their total carrying capacity in men is 59.295, so that in one trip they can transport close upon three full divisions. <