Statistics Of Atlantic Liners

Statistics of Atlantic Liners

There are fully 1,000 tons of piping

of various kinds in the average Atlan-

tic liner. The furnaces will consume

no less than 7,500,000 cubic feet of air

an hour. The boiler tubes, if placed

in a straight line, would stretch nearly

ten miles and the condenser tubes

more than twenty-five miles. The to-

tal number of separate pieces of steel

in the main structure of the ship is

not less than 40,000, and the total

number of cubic feet of timber used

in the construction is more than 10,-

000. The total number of rivets is not

far from 1,250,000.