LONGEST LINER.
SECRET OF THE NEW CUNARDER
BOATS FOR 4250 PEOPLE
LONDON, April 19. The Cunard Company have at last disclosed the length of their new ship the Aquitania. She is 901 feet long, or 21ft more than the new HamburgAmerican Imperator, which makes her trial trip in May. She will also stand 33ft higher in the water, but her tonnage is 3000 below that of the Imperator. The three largest liners in the world are : —
Lgth. Bdth. Dpth. Tons. Ft. Ft. Ft. Aquitania 901 97 92£ 47,000 Imperator 880 98 59 50,0001 Olympic 852 92 59 45,324 ! The Aquitania will have a speed ot 23 knots and accommodation for 3250 passengers and a crew of 1000, and boats for all. She will be a ship within ; a ship, and in addition to a highly developed plan of water-tight bulkhead* will be fitted with water-tight deck..
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13093, 5 June 1913, Page 7
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