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TWO MISE STTAMERs.—NEW
ASBEEUIN UNEKS.
A tew particulars have just been re
ceived by Nessr Dalgety and Company
Limited regarding the new steamen
Themistocles and Domosthenee, now
balding for the Aberdeen line, at the
I renowned yards of Mere. Harland and
Wolff. Ltd., Belfast. r It is expected
that the tirst-named vesel will be com
pleted in time to take the homeward
sailing from Brisbane in April, while
the Demo-thenes will follow two months
later. Both are large ships of 12,000
tuns regiaer, and contain many not
able features conducive to the comfort
of saloon ad third-class passengers. The
bridge-deck is entirely given over to
public rooms and single-berth cabins for
saloon pasengen, a certain number of
which are so arranged to communicate
in pairs. The promenade decks are
most extensive, while the special fea
tures of the steamers are the great
roominess of the bridge deck cabin*,
which are nine feet in height, and every
cabin of either' ship is fitted with a
port-hole. The proportion of single
berth cabins is unprecedented, while the
publio-roome comprise a library, lounge,
smoke-rooms, and verandah cafe. The
dining saloon is on a different deck to
any of the state rooms, whereby all
smell of cooking, etc., in avoided, and
there will lx? enough seating accommo
dation to provide for 100 passengers,
which is the full complement, to have
their meals at the eame time. Probably
no other line has given mono attention
to third-class accommodation, and the
arrangements for this on the new
steamers will be of a most comfortable
description. Wireless telegraphy instal
Iation will bo fitted, also submarine sig
nalling apparatus in parte where there
are submarine signal stations. The
Themistocles will be fitted with twin
screws, while the Demosthenes will be
a triple-screw turbine steamer. Both
ships will have Mich a complete system
of watertight bulkheads that any two
compartments may lx* flooded and the
resel still remain afloat. The exterior
appearance will he pleasing to the eye,
the vessels having the dark green hull
and buff funnel. which is the well
known coloring of the Aberdeen liners,
and there will be two masts; but the
clipper bow. which was noticeable in
the older vessels of the line, will be
absent.
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