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Message: [QUOTE="Mark Baber, post: 40796, member: 79063"] 1. There was a third article in this paper, containing a lengthy passenger list, which I have not transcribed. 2. As has been noted here in the past, Smith was never officially named White Star's "Commodore" notwithstanding the use of that title here. 3. The ship which struck and damaged the temporary pier extension on 22 May 1911 was Cedric, not Celtic. Source: The New York Times, 23 May 1911. [i]The New York Times, 21 June 1911[/i] [b]GIANT OLYMPIC IN AT MIDNIGHT[/b] --- Newest and Biggest of Ocean Steamships Sighted Off Fire Island at 12:17 --- AT HER PIER ABOUT 8:30 A. M. --- Arrives with 500 Saloon Passengers Who Enjoyed All the Latest Luxuries of Ocean Travel--The News Abroad --- The marine observer at Sandy Hook was straining his eyes seaward at midnight last night for the lights of he new 45,000-ton White Star liner Olympic, the biggest ship in the world, steaming toward this port at nearly 22 knots an hour with 500 cabin passengers aboard. His vigil was rewarded at 12:17 A. M., when he sighted her east of Fire Island, incoming at full speed, several hours ahead of her scheduled time. The Olympic was reported 433 miles east of the Ambrose Channel Lightship at 6:58 o’clock yesterday morning. Her commander, Capt. E. J. Smith, Commodore of the White Star Line, wirelessed to the liner [sic] soon afterward that he expected to reach Quarantine about 3 o’clock this morning. A revenue cutter to meet her will leave the Barge office landing at 6:30 A. M. As the liner, coming from Southampton via Cherbourg and Queenstown, has a clean bill of health, she will not be detained long at Quarantine by Dr. Doty, so that she will meet the revenue cutter on her way up the bay to her pier, at the foot of West Nineteenth Street, she should dock there about 8:30 o’clock. [sic] The White Star pier, No. 59, has been extended temporarily for the accommodation of the Olympic and Titanic, her sister ship, after a long struggle between the White Star Line officials and the War Department at Washington. Owing to the somewhat slender construction of the extension to the pier the pilots say that the huge liner will have to be handled with great care while she is being docked. One gentle jolt from such a floating mass, and the new section of the pier might be separated from the rest and float away down the river. It has already received one knock from the Celtic which shook the beams up somewhat but did not do any serious damage. To dock the Olympic more easily there will be a fleet of twelve tugs at the pierhead, which will hold her back and prevent her from swinging over too hard on to the pier. James [sic] Bruce Ismay, President of the International Mercantile Marine Company, is a passenger on the new liner with his wife, and Col. Thomas Denny of the famous Dumbarton firm of shipbuilders is making the trip to watch the developments of the triple engines, two of the reciprocating type, one on either side, and a cetnre [sic] low pressure turbine. Mr. Ismay and Col. Denny will return next Wednesday on the Olympic, for which already there are 700 first-class passengers booked. Manager Jeffries says there is still room in the first cabin for more. According to the wireless messages received from passengers aboard the Olympic she has done splendidly on her maiden voyage. She has been equipped with all the latest improvements for the amusement and safety of her passengers. The Olympic is the largest ship that has ever entered the port of New York or any other port in the world. The Mauretania and the Lusitania lose their places as the leviathans of the Atlantic, but retain their speed records as a consolation. The Olympic is also the more costly. She represents anu [sic] investment of $10,000,000. The dimensions of the Olympic are 882Â½ feet long and 99Â½ feet beam, with 66,000 tons displacement and a depth of 175 feet from the top of her funnels to her keel. Pier 59 North River was extended 100 feet to accommodate her. She is ninety feet longer than the Mauretania and the Lusitania and 13,000 tons bigger in size, and carries a crew of 850 officers and men. Here are some of her other measurements: Height of funnels above casings, 62 feet; draught, 34 feet 6 inches; largest shell plates, 49 feet long and 11/8 inches thick; number of decks, 11; number of watertight bulkheads, 15; capacity of double bottom, 5,700 tons; cargo capacity, 5,600 tons; number of passengers provided for, 2,650. Sixteen boats are carried at the davits on her top deck. The swimming bath on the promenade deck is 33 feet by 14, with a depth of 9 feet of water. The huge rudder, which is operated electrically, weighs 100 tons; the anchors weigh 15Â½ tons each, the center propeller 22 tons, and each of the two wing propellers 38 tons. Each link in the chain anchor weighs 175 pounds, the huge after bosses from which the three propeller shafts are suspended weigh in all 73Â½ tons. In appearance the new leviathan has more of a bluff bow than the Mauretania or Lusitania, and resembles the lines of the Adriatic. She has four funnels, the last of which is used as a ventilator. There are three passenger elevators in the first class sections and one in the second class. The bridge deck promenade is 550 feet long, which gives a good idea of the huge scale on which the vessel has been built. Five times around this deck measures more than a mile. The width of the ship is noticeable in the main dining saloon, which runs right across the ship, a distance of 90 feet, 114 feet in length, and contains seating accommodations for 532 persons. Its interior decoration is done in the style of the early seventeenth century. The White Star Line officials say that the Olympic will maintain an average speed of 21 knots and will make her landing here regularly on Wednesdays. It is said that the bilge keels with which she has been fitted, combined with the machinery of the reciprocating engines operating the two wing propellers with the centre turbine, eliminate all vibration, and serve to steady the ship in all kinds of weather. According to reports of Capt. Smith sent by wireless to the office here, the Olympic encountered fine weather after leaving Queenstown last Thursday until Sunday, when she ran into a fog bank which caused her to lose some time. ********** NOT A SHIP, BUT A BRIDGE --- Opinion of One Passenger on Incoming Olympic---What’s Doing Abroad --- By Marconi Wireless to The New York Times --- ON BOARD S. S. OLYMPIC. June 20---The initial trip of the new monster White Star liner Olympic is exceeding expectations. We expect to dock early on Wednesday. From the time we passed Daunt’s Rock, at 4:22 o’ clock on Thursday afternoon, to noon on Friday, we steamed 428 knots. The next day’s run was 534 knots, to noon Sunday 542, to noon Monday 525, although we slowed down for four hours on account of fog. As we left Southampton, flying the royal Naval Reserve ensign, we were saluted by the British fleet at Spithead. We have received many congratulations from passing ships, and the wireless equipment has been kept very busy from the time we started. The passengers are unanimous in praise of the big ship. Miss Jane Cowl, who is aboard, says this isn’t a ship, but a bridge across the Atlantic. It takes the best part of the voyage to find one’s way about the vessel. The public rooms and the staterooms are huge, and the ventilation is wonderful. The French restaurant is a great feature and heavily patronized. The forty-foot swimming pool, electric and Turkish baths, and racket court are all much used and highly appreciated. Olympic games were held yesterday, and a dance last night, which had a bizarre air from the Moorish decorations. The weather has been beautiful and the ship very steady, without vibration. On board are 489 first-class passengers, 263 second-class, and 564 third-class. The crew numbers 850. -30- [/QUOTE]

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