The City of Paris is 10,499 tons gross register, and is 527 feet long: she also is a twin-screw vessel. It will be observed by comparison with the Majestic [see table, p. 78] that the City of Paris is the larger ship, although she is 38 feet shorter, her extra beam of 5.4 feet giving her this advantage. Her speed with 20,100 I. H.-P. is 21.952 knots, her best run on service being 20.01 knots; and her daily consumption of coal is about three hundred and twenty tons, which necessitates her leaving port with over two thousand seven hundred tons of fuel on board for the trip. [Illustration: The White Star Steamer Majestic.] Previous to the advent of these vessels the Cunard Company’s steamships Etruria and Umbria were the fastest boats on the Atlantic, and their performances are highly creditable to all concerned. The best voyage from Queenstown to Sandy Hook by the Etruria was done in 6 days, 5 hours, 3 minutes, and the best from Sandy Hook to Queenstown in 6 days, 7 hours, 32 minutes, and the average in 1886 was about 6 days, 15 hours, as compared with the 11 days, 19 hours of 1856. The average of the Britannic for ten years was 8 days, 9 hours, 36 minutes, Queenstown to New York; and 8 days, 1 hour, 48 minutes, New York to Queenstown. COMPARATIVE TABLE OF ATLANTIC STEAMSHIPS AND THEIR SPEEDS. ----------------+------+------+--------+--------+--------+---------+------ | | | | | | | | | | Length | | | | |Paddle| | on | | | | | or | When | Water- | | | Horse- | Ton- NAME OF SHIP. |Screw.|Built.| line. |Breadth.| Draft. | power. | nage. ----------------+------+------+--------+--------+--------+---------+------ | | |Ft. Ins.|Ft. Ins.|Ft. Ins.| Nominal.| Sirius |Paddle| 1836 | 170 0 | | | 270 | 700 British Queen | „ | 1839 | 234 0 | 40 4 | 16 0 | 500 | 2,016 Liverpool | „ | 1839 | 210 0 | 36 0 | | 404 | 1,150 Great Western | „ | 1838 | 212 0 | 35 4 | 16 0 | 450 | 1,340 Britannia | „ | 1840 | 206 0 | 34 6 | | 450 | 1,155 Scotia | „ | 1862 | 366 0 | 47 9 | 22 0 | 1,000 | 2,358 City of Richmond|Screw.| 1873 | 440 0 | 43 6 | | 700 | 4,780 City of Berlin | „ | 1874 | 488 6 | 44 2 | | 1,000 | 5,526 | | | | | |Indicated| Germanic | „ | 1874 | 455 0 | 45 2 | 23 7 | 5,400 | 5,008 Britannic | „ | 1874 | 455 0 | 45 2 | 23 7 | 5,400 | 5,004 Arizona | „ | 1879 | 450 0 | 45 1 | 18 9 | 6,300 | 5,164 Servia | „ | 1881 | 515 0 | 52 0 |23 3-1/2| 10,300 | 7,392 City of Rome | „ | 1881 | 542 6 | 52 0 |21 5-1/2| 11,890 | 8,144