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Title: Every boy's book of railways and steamships
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Protheroe, Ernest
Subjects: Railroads Steamboats
Publisher: London : Religious Tract Society
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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operations include no less than sixty-eight differentservices, reaching nearly every important port ofthe globe. In the Hamburg-New York servicefive large vessels are engaged, viz. Deutschland, Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, Amerika, Cleveland, and Cincinnati, calling atSouthampton and Cherbourg outwards, andSouthampton and Boulogne homewards. The name Deutschland (Plate XXXIV) isan historic one in the annals of the Company;their first ship to cross the Atlantic was of thatname; she was a square-rigged three-master ofabout 717 tons. Comparing the Deutschland of1847 with that of to-day is to gain a good ideaof the marvellous progress of marine construction.The dimensions of the vessel have been given onpage 232. She made shipping history when, bymeans of her 16 boilers, fed by 112 fires anddeveloping 37,000 horse-power, and her 23 feetdiameter screws, she gained for Germany the blueribbon of the Atlantic. The Amerika and the Kaiserin AugusteVictoria (Plate XLVIII) are of ponderous size and
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THE ATLANTIC FERRY 299 stately lines. The former is 687 feet by 75 feetby 53 feet; registered tonnage, 22,622 ; displace-ment at full load draught, 42,000 tons; the latteris 700 feet by 77 feet by 54 feet; registered ton-nage, 25,000 ; and displacement about 43,000 tons. The Amerika has accommodation for 420first-class passengers, 300 second-class, 300 inter-mediate, and 2300 steerage passengers. The Kaiserin Auguste Victoria is one ofthe most splendidly appointed vessels afloat. TheWinter Garden (Plate XLIX) is only one of itsmany magnificent apartments. The gymnasiumis particularly well equipped with all kinds ofgymnastic apparatus. On Plate L is shown thegymnasium aboard the Amerika. When a rideris astride the saddle in the foreground and a machineis put in motion, he gets exactly the same exerciseas though he were mounted on a real steed. In thebackground is a camel saddle; so that passengersproceeding from the New World to the East canobtain some preliminary practice in that stre

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