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There is splendid promenading space on the boat deck where passengers
can exercise to their hearts' content and also indulge in games and
sports with all the freedom of field life. Many life boats swing on
davits and instead of being a hindrance or obstacle, act as shades
from the sunshine and as breaks from the wind.
In the space for first-class passengers are arranged a large number
of cabins. What are known as the regal suites are on both port and
starboard, and along each side of the main deck are more _en suite_
rooms.
On the shelter deck there are no first-class cabin quarters. At the
forward end of this deck are the very powerful Napier engines for
working the anchor gear. Abaft this on the starboard side is the general
lounging room for third-class passengers, while on the port-side is
their smoking room with a companion way leading to the third-class
dining saloon below and to the third-class cabins on the main and lower
decks. The third-class galleys are accommodated on the main deck house
and close by is a set of the refrigerating machinery used in connection
with the rooms for the storage of supplies for the kitchen department.
The side of the ship for a considerable distance aft of this is plated
up to the promenade deck level so that the third-class passengers have
not only convenient rooms but a protected promenade. Abaft this
promenade is another open one. Indeed the accommodations for the third
class are as good as what the first-class were accustomed to on most
of the liners some dozen years ago.
To the left of the grand staircase on the deck house is a children's
dining saloon and nursery.
On the top deck are dining saloons for all three classes of passengers,
that for the third being forward, for the first amidships and for the
second near the stern; 470 first-class passengers can be seated at a
time, 250 second class and more than 500 of the third class.
The main deck is given up entirely to staterooms. The whole of the
lower deck forward is also arranged for third-class staterooms. The
firemen and other engine room and stokehold workers are located in
rooms above the machinery with separate entrances and exits to and
from their work. Promenade and exercise space is provided for them on
the shelter deck which is fenced off from the space of the second and
third class passenger. Amidships is a coal bunker with a compartment
under the engines for the storage of supplies.
The coal trimmers are accommodated alongside the engine casing and
abaft this are the mailrooms with accommodation for the stewards and
other helpers. The "orlop" or eighth deck is devoted entirely to
machinery with coal bunkers on each side of the boilers to provide
against the effect of collisions.
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