Launch of First of Luxurious Motor Liners at Nagasaki The N.Y.K.'s_ motorship Asama Maru—one of.their three super-motor vessels for the Pacific service was launched on October 30 the Mitsubishi Dockyard at Nagasaki.
The Asama Maru embodies the atest ideals in ship construction, and upon her completion which should be about on September 15, 1929, is expected (together with het two sister ships the Tatsuta Maru and Chichibu Maru) to bring about fa new era in trans-Pacific passenger traffic.
The Asama Maru is 584 ft. in Jength, 72 ft. in breadth, and 42.6 ft, in depth, with a tonnage displace-mont of 22,200 and a gross tonnage 16,800. The loading capacity will 8,000 tons. The height from the eel to the top of the mast is 104 feet, The liner will be equipped with Sulzer diesel engines of 20,000 horse power with four sets of engines of eight cylinders for each engine, and will be able to develop 'a speed of 19 knots.
Special Passenger Accommodation She will have passenger accommodation for 220 first-class, 100 second-class and 500 third-class. Noteworthy features embodied are:—the accommodation for passengers
(a) All first and second class.
staterooms have necess to direct open air portholes, or rather wine dows.
The per capita space for passengers is equal to that in any trans-Atlantic steamers, (c) All first class staterooms are fitted with large size beds and not with berths. A limited number of the staterooms, however, fare fitted with an additional pullman berth for the accommodation of a family with children. A per-feet system of hot and cold running water supply will be install-
(a) The majority of first class cabins have private bathrooms attached.
In addition to a spacious and artistically arranged dining saloon, the first-class public rooms include a lounge, smoking-room, writing-room, drawing-toom, " nurser} verandah cafe, gymnasium, Sukiyaki Halland swimming pool. The second-class public rooms include a dining saloon, snicking-room, tounye fand verandah cafe, The ship will be luxuriously fitted and equipped with the latest devices for the comfort and safety of pas-
'A Bank on Board 'A novel feature will be that the vestd will have on board a branch office of the Sumitomo Bank, the functioning of which bank will be the exchange of money, cashing traveller's cheques, remittances, ete. and, when the system is in oper: tion, it should pro venience to passen)
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