Every boy's book of railways and steamships (1911)
Protheroe, Ernest · London : Religious Tract Society · leaf 298
ofnew vessels consisted of the Atlantic, Arctic, Baltic and Pacific. The first-named was276 feet in length, 45 feet beam, and 31|- feet indepth. The breadth over the paddle-boxes was75 feet; the main saloon was 70 feet long andthe dining saloon was 60 feet by 20 feet. Novessel had ever been floated… … BLUE RIBBON OF THE ATLANTIC 225 hours; and the Atlantic, a year later, with9 days 17 hours, set up a new record for theeastward passage. The career of the CollinssLine, however, was meteoric in the extreme. Toreckless expenditure was added the loss of twoof the vessels, in which disasters hundreds…
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