Show I VAST f Keels Laid for Largest Larget Ocean Monsters in Existence f t FOR FOE PACIFIC 4 I WILL E RUN nuN nr IN cIr GREAT J ROAD BOAD I f I New London Coon Conn Nov li Actual 1 work began this week on Olt the laying of pf the tile keels keel to the mammoth iron tron steam steamships steamships ships to be bunt at t the works of the Eastern Ship Building company at Groton Grot opposite New London and from this date the work of f putting together the hulls of the ships shIm I ps will go rapid rapidly ly on There was issued l from the office of the company tod toda today y an authoritative statement regarding the th size of the 1 ships which shows allow them to to be the larg largest est eat vessels els vea in the tb world now building i or planned The new vessels sels Ve will be of I 2 28 tons register and tons dis displacement displacement placement or just 1800 more displacement displace displacement displacement ment than the pew new Atlantic greyhound Deutschland The steamers which are being built primarily for cargo carriers are not noOt as long as many Atlantic lin un liners ers erg but are much muck wider and deeper I i j The following are the principal di dimensions dimensions dimensions of the vessels Length 60 feet tEet beam 73 feet depth 56 feet They each have the five continuous deck dek l extending the whole length of the ship with three additional partial decks amidships t Passengers as well as freight will be beI carried and accommodations are pro provided provided vided for nearly nearl 1000 1090 passengers in I three dames classes cla es esThe The vessels will have a speed of four fourteen I teen knots an hour and will carry over 01 tons of coal l in bunkers They Thay are designed to carry cattle or rosen n meats me in refrigerator chambers Chambe chamb rs g fruit or any kind of cargo that may appear for transportation I 1 It is estimated that when completed the steamships will cost et fully and they are intended to run from the Pacific coast to Oriental con connection connection with the Great Northern rail railway railway iwa way |