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Show Big Liners Use 5,000 Tons of Water on Trip Few people would care to pay for a liner's drink toi one voyage across the Atlantic, even In water at a penny per gallon. Very little change would be given out of a 500 note. One of the big Atlantic liners has to carry about 5.UO0 tons of fresh water for all purposes for a single voyage from Southampton to New York. This tonnage alone is about two and a half times the weight of Nelson's old flagship flag-ship II. M. S. Victory, says London Tit-Bits. Tit-Bits. A passenger on one of these leviathans levia-thans uses for drinking and domestic purposes about five gallons a day on the voyage. And as the ships average 3,000, passengers wad crew, It means they have to carry, roughly, a week's water supply for a small country town In tanks, neatly stowed away along the sides of the ship. But it Is the giant boilers that have the greatest thirst. On one voyage the Berengurla used over 3,000 tons of water, or, at ten pounds to the gallon, roughly, 6?2,000 gallons. London Tit-Bits. |
