WORLD'S BIGGEST SHIPS
NEW GERMAN LINER. EIGHTY-THREE LIFEBOATS, By TeleCTaplu--Press Association.—Copyright (Eecoived April 4, 10.25 p.m.) . 'Berlin, April. 4. The Hamburg-America Company's new liner, the Vaierlund, v was launched yesterday. She ifii a sister % the Imperator, the largest ship in ihe world. < ■;■.,.:-,■.'■>■:■ The Vaterland will carry 83 lifeboats and 70 of them will bo capable of being launched on either side^
j ELEVEN-SPOBKSD FW>ATING PALACE. i. The Hamburg-American Company's new liner Impcrator, which, is to leave next month from Hamburg on her maiden voyage to New York, is the largest, hmt in iho world. She is an eleven-storeyed floating .palace, 710 ft: long, with engines of 80j00u horsef power. Her displacemeni is 50,000 tons, ■ and she can aa;ommodat< 5000 .passengers.- -Among other luxnriei thV Impevator has been fitted with.tbres electric ftf ta, a' winter -■ garden, summer houses, a theatre;: x«3 tansant, " cottage'?; cafe, trelephones; swimming ahd baHroora. '- Th swtmmiag bath is a copy of one unelrthei a# Pompeii, with Mosaic pavements, o. re pucas..of those discovered at Treves. Th fimi-class dinine saloon, in the Louis XVI /style, is.SOOft mg. '■■-'>'■ - '"■" ?-<•■.■/.■.•
WORLD'S BIGGEST SHIPS
New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15269, 5 April 1913, Page 7
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