Displacement 20,000 26,100 33,000 26,000 41,500 Draught 30 30 30 30 32 Speed 22 20 16¹⁄₂ 23¹⁄₂ 25 I.H.P. 30,000 29,000 16,000 38/40,000 65,000 Consumption } of coal, tons } 485 400 260 660 840 per day } Length, b.p. 598 685 709 684 760 Breadth 65 68·3 75·6 72·3 88 Depth 43 49 49 52·6 60·5 Gross tonnage 12,950 17,274 23,800 19,360 28,830 Number of } {12 double} boilers } 13 16 8 { 7 single} 24 Total cost £615,000 £739,000 £800,000 £927,200 £1,250,000 “The above table shows at a glance the ships that have come between the _Campania_ and the _Lusitania_. The _Baltic_ shows the type of steamer that pays the best, going across at a moderate speed sufficient for most people while at the same time carrying an enormous amount of cargo.”[92] [92] _Shipping World_, January 2, 1907. Alterations have been made in the propellers of both these steamers with a view to finding the size, pitch, number of blades, material, weight, and number of revolutions per minute and the other details upon which efficiency depends, but the result is carefully guarded. Such tests are expensive. In 1889 the White Star Company built the _Teutonic_ of 10,000 tons, which, like her sister ship the _Majestic_, was intended to be an armed mercantile cruiser. These two vessels, which each took nearly three years in building, were at that time the finest the world had seen, and the speediest, and were regarded with such wonder that at the naval review in 1889, one of them was visited by the German Emperor and the late King Edward (then Prince of Wales) and many distinguished officers of the Navy. The _Majestic_ soon brought the record from Queenstown to New York down to 5 days 18 hours 18 minutes, but this was reduced by the _Teutonic_ to 5 days 16¹⁄₂ hours. The second _Oceanic_, also of steel and a twin-screw boat, was placed in the Liverpool and New York service in 1899. She was 704 feet in length and was the first vessel to be built longer than the _Great Eastern_, but in other respects she was smaller, her beam being 68·3 feet, her gross tonnage 16,900 and her displacement tonnage 26,100. The indicated horse-power of the _Oceanic_ was 29,000 as against the 11,000 of the _Great Eastern_, and her speed was 21¹⁄₂ knots as compared with 13. In equipment, too, she was regarded as the last possible word in luxury and magnificence. Her promenade deck was 400 feet long, and the saloon was 80 by 64 feet, the latter surmounted by a glass dome 21 feet square.