THE MONSTER CUNARDER

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLI, Issue 317, 6 December 1906, Page 1

THE MONSTER CUNARDER

SOMJE IfTCJfeBESTING EACTS. ■ ■ *l,': — : — -7— -'>■ ■ V '■■ .- ., The. :gigantic '-scale- flii ;i which: the; Mauretania is conpeiy«!d .is illustrated by the following iacts abjjut her propelling machine l^ v-7" . '. ■■ ; ■ On a trip' '. iq New York and back she will use as} much coal as 20 trains, each consisting of -20 .large trucks, could carry. "; ■•;-•• ,\ The coal burnt on a voyage out to Haw York and baclc wo\jla kj«p the fires, of 3000 average working men's houses going for aperioH of one yaw. Approximately -350^ firemen and trimmers} will be require'd to Jeal with tlie coal ! . -. • . ' If. the funnels were/placed one above the other they would form a column 430 feet ; high " "" . '■ ; Lunch could be^ tak>to by 250 people in. one of the furtnels, each perso.i comfortably seated at "the table. - Independently of-, the pipes for steam and water connectjjjns; there- will bo about" 144 miles -of; brass and tubes fitted to the boilers, condensers, etc. : ■_ There will be nearly- 600 tons of rotating mass .in ihe "" engine-room, t! is mass re volvinaat. 'about. 2Qo .revolutions per minute.- The whol?. of ' this will be undec control and ineasttremeiii" to onethoHsandth part bf^an inch. There will be thrfe-^ualrters of a million blades in the I 'turbines, and, if r placed end to end, these blades would oxtend over a distance of 110 miles. Two electric trains' cbold "pass each otW eWe „ jby eid^9> in J tha ' condenser "exhaust branch, as far as dimensions

|o. ' >. Y ' ■''■' ."•'• "> The aggregate length of the stc*u» and .feed pir/es in.-.the. machinery room will be about lJin^Je: '. ■'■i'-. : Some -of the la/ger- castings wljjch form the] ltp. casftgs. w^igh aSottt 58 lions" each. -v,.?/ V ? •■'','' The weight pf the .ingots from which the ''large' drunis, w^te forged was 120 tons each. • ct , A/V-c • There "will" be abjojA; 200 -miles of-el-ectric cables In $$ --?J»>p,. . ' _ v > The electric gfeifsrating station on the ship is 'larger than that which supplies the town, ot Paisley and its 87,0UC inhaTtiitanfe'; " .r,;"' ■■'