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steam railway-ferry service.
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Both the Swedish and the German vessels have been built in accordance with
the plans drawn by W. Hök, a Swedish engineer, and resemble each other in
all essentials. The Swedish boats were constructed, "Konung Gustav V" at
Lindholmen’s Mechanical Works, Gothenburg, and "Drottning Victoria" at Swan,
Hunter & Richardson’s dockyard, at Newcastle-on-Tyne. "Konung Gustav V"
was built almost entirely of Swedish steel from the Avesta ironworks, while
the interior fittings are almost exclusively of Swedish timber. The keel of this
vessel was laid on August 19, 1908. It was launched on June 19, 1909, and
was delivered, fully equipped, to the Swedish State on March 4, 1910.
The Swedish State was compelled to have the other boat built at a foreign
dockyard on account of the short time allowed by the above-mentic^ned
agreement between Sweden and Prussia before the ferry line was to be opened, and,
at the time, the home dockyards were unable to do more than to undertake to
complete the one vessel within the stipulated time.
Each of the Swedish steam-ferry boats has a length of 113 meters, a beam
of 15’6 meters and a draught of 5’0 meters. The engines have a maximum
indicated power of 5 000 h. p., and the speed is 17Vs knots, i. e., the vessels
cover the distance between Trälleborg and Sassnitz in 3 hrs, 15 min., exclusive
of the time needed for making fast in the harbours and receiving and discharging
the train, etc.
The train-deck permits of a double track amidships, with a total free track
180 meters in length. A total of 18 goods waggons, or a corresponding number
of passenger carriages can be carried on each steamer on every journey. The
interior fittings of the vessels are exceedingly comfortable and tasteful, even in
the parts intended for the 3rd class passengers. The vessels have dining-rooms,
smoking-rooms, ladies rooms, bath-rooms, and cabins for 100 passengers. All the
bath-rooms are provided with hot and cold water. There are about 800 electric
lamps for illuminating purposes, and the heating and ventilation of the vessel
is effected by means of heated-air apparatus.
The Trälleborg-Sassnitz ferry-steamers are the largest in Europe, being nearly
three times as large as the Malmö steam-ferry boats, and more than twice as
large as the Danish ferry-boats on the route Gjedser—Warnemünde. In contrast
with other European steam-ferry boats, the railway track does not run through
the whole length of the vessels, so that the boats are always obliged to back
into the harbour, but this inconvenience is counterbalanced by their being better
sea-boats in rough weather. The lines of the steamers are very beautiful, and
they are excellent sea-going boats.
On the steam-ferry route Trälleborg—Sassnitz there were carried
during 1913, on 2 232 journeys (the Swedish boats, 1 116 trips), a total of
96 802 passengers to or from Sweden, and, during the same time, there
were transported 51 866 tons of goods from, and 82 131 tons to, Sweden.
On the ferry-line Malmö—Copenhagen, the greater part of the
freight-waggon goods from Sweden to Denmark consisted of timber goods,
agricultural products, undressed, key- and dressed stone, iron and steel, etc.,
while, in the direction from Denmark to Sweden, it consisted of coal,
strong fodder, grain, etc. On the Trälleborg—Sassnitz route, the chief
freight-goods consist of fish, fodder, wild berries, and stone, while the
corresponding consignments to Sweden chiefly consist of oils, machinery,
tools and implements, iron and steel, chemicals, and chemico-technical
preparations.
Since the beginning of 1912, the vessels on the Trälleborg—Sassnitz
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