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0 ee ll ---- a VOL. 44 CLEVELAND TT! IATA QU LA NM TTT HTT ae ae = JULY, 1914 AAA wom me fete NEW YORK No. 7 Cunard Liner Aquitania A Giant Liner Intended to Maintain Express Service With the Lusitania and Mauretania HE Cunard liner Aquitania in- l tended to maintain with the Lusitania and Mauretania the express service between Liverpool and New York, has gone into commission, having made on her trial something Detter, than 26 knots; (Unlike. the There is but little question that she will be able to do so. The principal dimensions of Aquitania are: Length, 901. ite: Breadth, 97° ft. Depth to boat deck, 92:1. 6 in, the tudinal and transverse girders, some of them continuous to form water- tight compartments, and others hav- ing large man-holes to lighten the structure and to afford means of com- munication in the compartments which form ballast, reserve feed or con- ~ Lusitania and Mauretania she is not a subsidized vessel and will have to depend upon her superior and more humerous accommodations for the rev- €nues to offset the loan made to her two sisters by the British government. CUNARD LINER AQUITANIA Tonnage, 47,000. From bow to stern there is a dou- ble bottom, which has a depth of 5 ft. 4 in., increased to 6 ft. 3 in. in the turbine room. The building up of the double bottom consists of longi- densed water tanks. In all there are 41 water-tight compartments in the double bottom, each of which can be pumped out or filled separately. Five of the fore and aft girders are solid or water-tight--the center girder, the