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record, and so the Arizona might be 

 claimed as their reply to the Britannic and 

 Germanic. She was built upon the Clyde 

 by John Elder & Co., and had a length of 

 450 ft., 45 ft. in beam, with a tonnage of 

 5,164, so that she was only a trifle larger 

 than the corresponding ships of the White 

 Star, although she came five years later. 

 There was a considerable improvement, 

 however, in her compound engines, and 

 her boilers needed 125 tons of coal a day. 

 This seems very small to us when we 

 realise that before such ships as the 

 Mauretania went over to oil fuel, 1,000 

 tons a day were needed. But in the early 

 'eighties it seemed as if the limit had 

 almost been reached from a fuel point of 

 view. 



The name of the Arizona will always 

 be remembered because of her remarkable 

 adventure with an iceberg. She was run- 

 ning at practically full speed when she 

 crashed into a berg which the lookout had 

 not seen, or had seen too late. Everyone 



