THE LARGEST SHIP AFLOAT.
The new five-masted sailing ship Potosi, built at Tecklenborg's yard, Bremen, for a Hamburg firm (F. Laeisz), is of the following dimensions :— Length over all, 394 f t; width over the plating amidships, 49ft 9in ; depth from npper edge of keel to nnder the main deck amidships, 31ft in. Her register tonnage is 3780 tons net: displacement on an average draft of 25ft, 8580 tons; carrying capacity, about 6150 tons. Siemens-Martin steel is the material of which this colossal sailer is built. Two steel decks run over the whole length of the vessel, the upper one being lined with yellow pine, and besides this there is another deck in the fore peak, and the bridge deck also of steel covered with wood. There is accommodation for a crew of about forty-four men, and a passenger cabin. The ship will be rigged as a five masted barque.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XV, Issue XXIII, 7 December 1895, Page 724
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150THE LARGEST SHIP AFLOAT. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XV, Issue XXIII, 7 December 1895, Page 724
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