The History of North Atlantic steam navigation with some account of early ships and shipowners (1896)
Fry, Henry · New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 192
, 4245 net, and the Majestic 9861 gross, and 4340 net.They are built of Siemens-Martin steel, and have three polemasts, but no yards. To add to their strength the builders introduced a novehy inriveting their outside plates. Instead of butting the platestogether, as usual, they overlap each other,… … THE WHITE STAR LINE. 173 This plan, though not quite as sightly, is much stronger than theold plan. The decks are of steel, covered with wood. In additionto ten transverse bulkheads they have a longitudinal bulkhead,
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