Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 169
enormoustanks, that with the contents weighed upwards of 5,000 tons. The ship hassince been constantly engaged in similar operations.* The Great Easternis six times the size of our largest line-of-battle ships, and about seventimes as large as the splendid steamers of the Cunard line, which… … Fig. t)%.-^2he Great hasierti in course of Construction, many passengers, with coal for forty days consumption instead of fifteen.Her length is 692 ft.; width, 83 ft.; depth, 60 ft.; tonnage, 24,000 tons;draught of water when unloaded, 20 ft.; when loaded, 30 ft.; and a pro-menade round her decks…
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