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The Korea in outward appearance belongs to the type of the American line of the Western Ocean Express steamships St. Paul and St. Louis, two-masted, double funnelled, with a long sweep of two-tiered promenade deck cutting down fore and aft into two unrailed decks where the hatches are and then coming up again into a topgallant forecastle and poop deck big enough for ball room floors. She is just the kind of a liner, like a grand hotel," that was cheered by the men of the Bolivar swamping in the She was born in the yards of the New port News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Ca. and is supposed to be the best that: American skill can turn out with Ameri-tan material. Five hundred and seventy-one feet seven inches long, sixty-three fect two inches broad and forty fect eight inches deep—thoso are her dimensions. She displaces 18,600 tons of good salt water, has a gross measurement of 11,276 tous, can carry 5,651 cubic tons or about 7,500 dead weight, has two sets of quadruple expansion engines, with cylinders 35, 70 and 100 inches in diameter, capable of developing 19,000 horse power; fourteen boilers—six double enders and two singles—and fifty-six furnaces. Telephones communicate with every part of the big steel fabric, the latest improved telegraph system directs her movements and every conceivable patent for cconomising labour and time 1s where it should be. The steering gear is a marvel of strength and utility. The bridge is a sailors dream, and the engines—Chief Engineer Paul Rossiter pointed toward
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