| Show A MIGHTY SHIP Good wills weekly describes the latest efforts of one of the big steamship companies in the way of building a leviathan of ohp deep editor goodwin says i an eastern paper has drawings of the two cunard steamships now in course of construction one on the tyne the other at cederdale Clde these ships will have eight decks and will be eight stories over ninety feet in height they will each be feet in length with a breadth of beam of eighty eight feet sixty feet depth of hold of tons burden and driven by horsepower horse power turbine engines they are expected to make twenty five or more knots an hour in crossing the atlantic there will be a passenger elevator on each side of the ship each will be a skyscraper of the sea there is a picture of one of these ships in a scientific paper and beside it a picture showing the relative size of these ships with tho first ship of the line built sixty five years ago tho contrast Is almost startling and is an object lesson of the evolution of the ship since the invention of steam and the adaptation of steam and electric power it Is altogether wonderful it will bo remembered that when three or four years ago the germans sent out the it was thought she was the perfection of ocean architecture these new Ci marders will be feet longer twenty one feet broader than the german ship more than double her tonnage and just twice her horsepower horse power it seems that old england has no idea of taking second place on the sea these ships are a notice that she intends to restore her former prestige the turbine engines have never before been attached to a large ship but it 1 said that an exact model of these great ships a model forty feet long was first built and tried in every possible way until the builders became absolutely satisfied that they could make the mighty ships a splendid success it seems most appropriate for these ships to be built by the Cunard ers their ships have been sloughing ploughing hing the atlantic for sixty five years the original projectors project ora of the line are all dead but during all that time despite storms fogs icebergs dangers from explosion and collision not one life on that companas comp anys ships has ever been lost they have lost a few ships but never a life this shows what science perfect executive ability and perfect discipline combined can do there Is no other such record la nil the world |
