[ESTABLISHED 1875.] Manawatu Daily Times. The Oldest Manawatu Journal. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1913. GERMANY'S TITANIC.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1889, 7 April 1913, Page 4

[ESTABLISHED 1875.] Manawatu Daily Times. The Oldest Manawatu Journal. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1913. GERMANY'S TITANIC.

Honours in the ship-building warships of commerce—rest again with Germany. On Friday there was launched at Hamburg the "liberator," a mammoth Hamburg-Ameri-can liner of 50,000 tons measurement. The length of the boat is 900 feet. She has eleven decks and has accommodation for 5,000 persons. Under the new life-preserving shipping laws there is ample boat equipment for a full complement of passengers and crew. One of her dining rooms accomm dates 800 people. An arrangement of watertight bulkheads has been provided, and her builders claim that under no conceivable circumstance could the ship be sunk or her engine-room flooded. The ressel has four propellers, each driven by a 15,000 horse-p wer iurb'.ne, and each of her huge screws, the largest ever made, is cast in a single mass of phosphor bronze The ship is expected to have a speed of over twenty knots an hour. Amongst other features are a large restaurant, a deck cafe, a winter garden, a spacious ball-room, and a Roman swimming bath.