FACTS AND FIGURES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19024, 26 May 1936, Page 14

FACTS AND FIGURES

SAFEST SHIP IN HISTORY HUGE SUPPLIES OF FOOD The Queen Mary will be the safest ship in history. All the lifeboats are motor-boats. Two high-speed motor boats are carried in case any one falls overboard. * * * In the gold and silver, whitefloored ballroom lighting effects will be controlled by the tone and volume of the music. A special microphone device will operate so that a hot number produces red and orange lights, the ‘‘Blue Danube” waltz blue ones. * * *

There are three cinema screens, one for each class. There are plenty of small public rooms. These were provided because investigation proved that: the first thing Englishmen or Americans look for is a corner where they can retreat. * * * The captain can extinguish tires from his office. In the holds, baggage and store rooms even the lighting of a pipe will be recorded on an instrument on the bridge. If necessary they could then be flooded with tire-extinguishing gas. Throughout the ship a circuit or highpressure water mains equipped with sprinkler stop valves will be instantly available. Everything that tire-proof-ing can do has been done. Inside and outside broadcasts will be received and transmitted by a special broadcasting station relaying programmes to MS loud-speakers in public, rooms. * * * A daily newspaper will reflect life on board as well as outside events. The printing presses will also have to turn out 12,000 menus a day. *• * when the Queen Mary sails her store ''"oms and refrigerators will contain: — Twenty tons of meat, 70,000 eggs, 20 t nis of lish, three tons of butter, MO tuus of potatoes, 20001 b. of choose, 4000 chickens and ducklings, (100 crates of apples and oranges, 4(l0U gallons of milk, 40,0001 b. of mixed vegetables, 40001 b. of tea and coffee, 10,0001 b. of sugar.