LARGEST CONCRETE SHIP.
6000-TON AMERICAN VESSEL. The largest concrete ship in the world arrived in the London docks recently after her first trip across the Atlantic. This vessel is the steamship Faith, which is owned by the San Francisco Steamship Company. She was built in Sar- Francisco a year ago in the brief period of forty days. Her length is 377 ft, with a 474,'t beam, and her draught forward is 26ft. The dead weight is 6000 tons. There is no iron or steel work anywhere in the vessel's hull. Not even an angle iron is to be found. She is just reinforced concrete moulded into shape. There are iron plates surrounding her wooden deckhouses, but they- were put up as a protection against heavy seas after she had made several trial trips in the Pacific. The captain has a suite of rooms forward, finished throughout in redwood, and beautifully furnished. His bathroom is equipped with a shower apparatus. The windows of the cabin are decorated with lace curtains. The officers' mess is a large, airy apartment, and each of them ha<> a neatly-furnished cabin. The men's quarters are also spacious and well equipped.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17336, 6 December 1919, Page 2 (Supplement)
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194LARGEST CONCRETE SHIP. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17336, 6 December 1919, Page 2 (Supplement)
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