. Railway age . tion of typical vessels of each class. The baron Kldon is a British tramp steamer, built at Sunder-land (1899) for general work. The gross tonnage is ,3,705 net ton-nage, 2,385 and the crew, 29 men, all told. Her dead weight capacityis 6,100 tons and she has actually carried as cargo 5,360 tons of coalon one voyage and on another 5,550 tons of rice. Her coal consump-tion at nine knots per hour is 22 tons per day. The Kaiser Wilhelm11 and the Cedric are two modern ocean giants, and built for theNorth Atlantic line traffic. The Cedric is not a racer, however,and has a displacemen
. Railway age . tion of typical vessels of each class. The baron Kldon is a British tramp steamer, built at Sunder-land (1899) for general work. The gross tonnage is ,3,705 net ton-nage, 2,385 and the crew, 29 men, all told. Her dead weight capacityis 6,100 tons and she has actually carried as cargo 5,360 tons of coalon one voyage and on another 5,550 tons of rice. Her coal consump-tion at nine knots per hour is 22 tons per day. The Kaiser Wilhelm11 and the Cedric are two modern ocean giants, and built for theNorth Atlantic line traffic. The Cedric is not a racer, however,and has a displacement of tons, will carry tons offreight, 3,000 passengers, a crew of 350 and has a coal consumptionof 2G0 tons per day at 17 knots per hour. The Kaiser Wilhelm 11built to break all records, has a displacement of 26,000tons, will carry less than 1,000 tons of freight, 1,888 pas-sengers, and has a crew of 600, with a coal consumption of 750Ions iHjr day at 24 knots per hour. She could beat the Cedric by. Baltic; White Star Line, 23,876 Tons. Best Type of Liner. Less Than Expiess Speed. about two days in a voyage from Now York to Liverpool, but to makethis gain her crew is nearly doubled and the daily coal consumptionnearly trebled. The coal consumed by the Kaiser Wilhelm 11 inone day would run the Baron Eldon, with her large amount offreight for thirty days, and carry her from New York to Liverpo;)land back to New Orleans. In this comparison the fact should notbe overlooked that the Kaiser Wilhelm 11 carries pivssen-gers. The Baron Eldon carries none, but her gross tonnage tons is a disproportionately large fraction of the Kaisers19,500. 3. The economies of ipanagement are possible because of thelack of dependence upon other ships and because the work Is alwaysof a temporary nature. The tramp has no schedule, and is freefrom the exactions of any particular round of engagements or thedisadvantages of any particular route. She undergoes no unneces-sary dall
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