 |
Business | Industries | Finance | Tax |
| Index: > A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
|
|||||
| First Prev [ 1 2 ] Next Last |
The following text, in the public domain, comes from a Cunard Line brochure of 1950 for the RMS Caronia, the first ever ship designed especially for cruising.
The RMS Caronia, Britain's largest post-war liner, was built by Messrs. John Brown & Co , Ltd., Clydebank, Scotland, who also constructed such famous Cunard liners as the old RMS Caronia of 1905, the RMS Queen Mary and RMS Queen ElizabethQueen Elizabeth was an ocean-going steamship passenger liner of the Cunard Steamship Company. She was launched at the John Brown & Company Shibuilding and Engineering shipyard at Clydebank Scotland on September 27, 1938 and retired in 1968. She was the la. Her keel was laid down in February 1946Events January January 4 Theodore Schurch becomes the last person to be executed for offences committed under the Treachery Act of 1940 January 7 Allied recognize Austrian republic with 1937 borders the country is divided into four occupation zones Januar, and the launching was performed on October 30October 30 is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 62 days remaining. Events 1470 Henry VI of England returns to the throne after Earl of Warwick defeats Yorkists in battle. 1831 In Southampton County, Virginia,, 1947, by HRH Princess Elizabeth .
The CaroniaCaronia is a town in the province of Messina, Sicily (Italy) where during the months of January and beginning of February 2004, household appliances and electricity meters unexplainably caught alight causing fire hazards. About 10 electricity meters caugh sailed on her maiden voyage from SouthamptonThis page discusses the English city of Southampton. For other places named Southampton, see Southampton (disambiguation). Southampton is a city and major port situated on the south coast of England. It is the closest city to the New Forest and lies at th to New YorkNew York is a state in the northeastern United States whose U. postal abbreviation is NY . It is sometimes called New York State when there is need to distinguish it from New York City. History See: History of New York New York was one of the thirteen col via Cherbourg on January 4 1949. The new ship has an overall length of 715 feet, a moulded breadth of 91 feet and a draught of 30 feet. Her 34,183 gross tonnage ranks her as one of the largest liners now in luxury service. On the North Atlantic the Caronia carries 932 passengers; on cruises her capacity is limited to approximately 560 - all First Class.
The Caronia is propelled by twin-screw triple expansion impulse reaction turbines, and has four generators, each consisting of a 1,100-kilowatt 220-volt direct current dynamo driven by steam turbine. There are ten decks aboard the liner: Sports, Sun, Promenade, Main, A, Restaurant, B, C, D and E. She has thirteen public rooms and two restaurants - all air-conditioned: Verandah Cafe, Observation Lounge, Cocktail Bar, Main Lounge, Writing Room, Smoking Room, Library, Theatre, Gymnasium, two Garden Lounges, After Cocktail Bar and Smoking Room.
Especially designed for warm weather cruising, the Caronia has been painted in four shades of pale green, since light colours are cooler in the Tropics. The hull of the liner has also been insulated internally which helps to prevent the sun's rays penetrating and thus raising the temperature below decks.
The total weight of the gigantic funnel and machinery it contains is 125 tons. The structure has a fore and aft length of 53 feet (nine feet longer than either funnel of the RMS Queen Elizabeth, the world's largest liner), a breadth of 26½ feet and a height of 46 feet. More than 2,500 fluorescent tubes and 10,000 incandescent lights are installed in the Caronia. The power plant on board is capable of supplying full electrical requirements for a city of 150,000 persons.
Each of the six special launches carried by the Caronia to land passengers at cruise ports was built in an individual slipway at Renfrew and launched into the Clyde just as was the Caronia herself. Each launch has a capacity for 60 passengers and is 45 feet long, with a beam of 15 feet and a depth of six feet. Driven by 130 horsepower diesel engines, the boats have a speed of ten knots fully loaded. To accommodate the launches, special sets of gravity davits were designed and are the largest ever fitted on an ocean liner.
One of the largest and most modern seagoing laundries ever installed in a ship services passengers aboard the Caronia. It is comparable in size to a commercial plant ashore capable of handling the needs of 2,000 people. Some 570 slave clocks, controlled by a master chronometer, guarantee precision time-keeping aboard the Caronia. Each stateroom has a silent electric clock, which is automatically corrected at the touch of a button on the bridge.
There are 700 telephones in the ship. Every stateroom has a telephone fitted for calls to any part of the world. In order to maintain the Cunard Line's standard of service, the Caronia carries a complement of 692 personnel. Acclaimed by both discriminating Atlantic travellers and seasoned cruise passengers as one of the most lovely ships to sail the seas, the "Caronia" superbly perpetuates the Cunard tradition of fine ships.
Her dual purpose design, of a ship perfectly fitted for cruising and suited equally well for service in the North Atlantic, resulted in a striking exterior, in which are combined all the feminine grace of a cruising yacht and the majestic proportions of an Atlantic liner . The graceful curve of her clipper bow , her single, tripod mast set abaft the bridge, and her great funnel - one of the largest ever built for a passenger liner - all these features are further enhanced by the colouring of the hull and superstructure, which is four shades of green.
Add to this revolutionary exterior a magnificent range of public rooms, each one of which is air-conditioned, and many other features, and it will be obvious how successfully the exacting requirements of this dual purpose design were achieved. It will be obvious, too, that the completion of the Caronia marked a new milestone in the development of the passenger liner that justly deserves her title of "Britain's wonder ship"
| Politics | Business | Finance |
 |
 |
 |
|