Salt Lake Herald | 1897-02-21 | Page 1 | Comfort, Not Speed

Comfort Not Speed New York Feb 20 Messrs Imrie Co of the White Star steamship line announces that they have authorized Messrs Harland Wolff the well known ship builders of Belfast Ireland to build for the Liverpool and New Yorg service a twin screw mal and passenger steamer 701 feet long In which extra speed will be subordinated to the comfort and convenience con-venience of passengers In her internal arrangements the new vessel will be a large reproduction of the Teutonic and Majestic The new steamer will be 23 feet longer than the Great Eastern hitherto the longest vessel ever built and 6 feet longer than any vessel now afloat or In process of construction I Is expected ex-pected that this steamer will be launched In January next The Oceanic has been determined upon as her name