100 Years Ago – White Star Line Plans Two Mammoth Liners

WHITE STAR LINE PLANS TWO MAMMOTH LINERS

Vessels Will Be Largest Steamers Afloat When Finished

Consul Samuel S. Knabenshue reports that a Belfast firm of ship builders is constructing two new slips which will enable vessels 1,000 feet in length to be built to which he adds:

There are two gantries, 225 feet high, running the entire length of these slips. Each gantry is supported on 33 columns, each over 180 feet in height, and will be supplied with pneumatic riveters and lifting cranes. The new slips will be completed in November next. As soon as these slips are completed the keels of two new vessels for the White Star line will be laid, each 860 feet in length. These steamships will be completed in 1910 and will be larger than any vessel now afloat.

New White Star Liners—Length, 860 feet; breadth, 92 feet; tonnage, 45,000 to 50,000; speed, 19 to 20 knots; engines, turbine and piston combined.

The San Francisco Call
San Francisco, California
March 29, 1909