The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

18 almost impossible that a service test, such a severe service test, could be run by any form of reciprocating engine, and maintain as creditable performance, when we consider that in the 178 days. that these steamers will make a total distance of 53,578 knots, with absolutely no ad- THE MaRINE REVIEW justment or expense whatever connected with the 'main parts of the machinery. I think our thanks are due to a cer- tain extent for the trouble taken by Prof. Peabody in giving this paper, and I, for my part, think it very creditable. ».. (To be: Continued.) Birthplace of the New White Star Levia- _ thans, to be Over 900 Feet Long. The preparations for the construc- tion of the mammoth White Star liners Olympic and Titanic at Messrs. Harland & Wolff's yard at Belfast are almost completed as will be seen by the illustration of the enormous struc ture which covers the two slips on which the new ships are to be built. Of course the visible structure is only a part of the preparations, the slips themselves having undergone a com- plete transformation before the gan- tries could ibe constructed on the site. The amazing erection is a web-work of steel girders nearly 300 ft. high, ~ lifting from 5 to 40 tons, and there is also provideda cantilever arm reach- ing out 137 ft. in any given direction. A special correspondent of the Lon- don Daily Mail has had an interview with the Right Hon. A. M. Carlile, the general manager of Messrs. Har- land & Wolff, and although the offi- cial dimensions of these leviathans cannot be made '4nown he supplies the following interesting particulars: Vast as the preliminary outlay is, the Olympic and Titanic could not come into being without these gan- tries, for they simply dwarf all that BUILDING BERTHS FOR THE OLYMPIC AND TITANIC. " 300 'ft. wide, and 850 ft.' long, and cost about $1,000,000. It extends over the length and breadth of the three berths whereon such vessels as the Adriatic; Baltic and Celtic have been built. The foundations of these berths being "slob" has had 10,000 extra piles driven into it, and ferro-concrete at the rate of 2,000 tons each 24 hours is being laid in order that the floor may bear being depressed unevenly by a weight of 75,000 tons. The gantry is provided with 29 electric cranes have ever gone before, even those marvellous vessels the Lusitania and Mauretania. As to the Great Eastern, leviathan born out of due time, since even now she dominates the imagina- tion of many, be pleased to compare her principal dimensions with 'these latter day wonders. She was 25,000 tons displacement, they (the new White Star liners) 60,000 tons, she drew when laden 30 ft., they 37 t., her length was about 600 ft., theirs between 900 and 1,000 ft. (exact par- ticulars are not available in this par- ticulars; her combined horsepower was 3,000, theirs 50,000--for they are not to be considered fast ships, only they will not steam less than 21 - knots, They will each have four funnels and one mast. Their stern frames, - cast in one vast forging, will each weigh 300 tons, the rudders each 100 tons, LS" cwts.; -and for 'a swift transition the main dining saloon will seat 600 diners at once. Their correspondent goes on to say: One thing 1 was curious about was the mighty float- ing crane which Messrs Harland & Wolff have had constructed in Ger- many at enormous cost, to. lift a weight up to 175 tons from any po- sition afloat. Why in Germany? Be- cause no British firm could or would undertake such a job, and Harland & Wolff must have up-to-date tools, this one like all the others having electrical motor power. I must point to a portent, for it is nothing less. Here is, beyond question, the great- est shipbuilding works in the world, having at the present time 13 vessels on 'hand, ranging from 60,000 tons to 6,000 tons. The men are working -day-and night, the yard is being ex- ploited to its utmost capacity, no specter of unemployment looms before its army of employes. Yet every pound of coal as well as of material has: to: be imported. There are no coal and iron mines, foundries, etc., behind it to draw from as so many yards have that have suffered' and do suffer from lack of work. Into the economies of this wonder I cannot enter. I can only point to it' and say, What does: it 'méan? Another matter which should never be lost sight of in considering the work of this wonderful firm in' connection with the progress of the White Star Line is that they have worked together upon a basis of mutual confidence, an utter' absence of contracts, and of any kind' of hitch ever since they com- menced building the pioneer "Oceanic" in 1870. It is a splendid record of com- mercial integrity of which any firm might well be proud, and one cannot but rejoice that it has been so well and amply rewarded. The steel steamer Northland, built last year at Moran's for the North- land Steamship Co,, Tacoma, Wash, went ashore on Enterprise Reef at the entrance to Active Pass' Nov. 26. She was later released by the Canad- ian Pacific steamer Princess Royal and towed to a favorable spot where she could be beached. The North- land is not seriously damaged.