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Largest Ship Afloat

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 28, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 9.

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Largest Ship Afloat

LARGER by nearly one hundred feet than any other vessel afloat is the White Star liner Olympic, which was launched at Belfast, Ireland, October 26.
She is of 45,000 tons, and will accommodate 2,500 passengers. She has been building for twenty-two months, and it will be some eight months longer before she is ready for her trial trip. She is a triple screw steamer. Her principal dimensions are: length over all, 882½ feet; breadth over all, 92½ feet; breadth over boat deck, 97 feet; height from bottom of keel to top of captain's house, 105½ feet; to top of funnel, 175 feet; funnels above being 82 feet. She has eleven steel decks and fifteen water-tight bulkheads. Her crew will number 860.
The Olympic is one sixth of a mile long. If she and her sister ship, Titanic, soon to be launched, were to be placed end to end under the Brooklyn Bridge, they would block the East River, and extend over each shore nearly one hundred feet.
She is twice as long as St. Peter's in Rome is high, equals in length the total drop of the Bridal Veil Falls in the Yosemite Valley, and her length is four times the height of the Bunker Hill Monument.
Scientific American Note the fine lower
Scientific American Note the fine lower
On the Olympic there will be Turkish and electric baths, swimming pools, tennis-courts, sun parlors, palm courts, and a deck where sports may be indulged in.
To bind the massive steel plates, 2,500,000 steel rivets are required. This will insure the greatest stability. The total weight of these rivets will be 1,200 tons. The rudder weighs 100 tons, and will be moved by electricity.
Each of these monster vessels, whose speed is calculated to be twenty-one knots an hour, will be propelled by a unique combination of reciprocating engines with a low-pressure turbine similar to that moving the White Star liner Laurentic, plying in Canadian waters. It is said that vibration is positively eliminated, and that passengers who may use these ships need have no fear of seasickness.