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38 Cunard conipany to be fitted with single-screw engines, and they may be said to represent the highest de- gree of proficiency attained by the TRE MARINE. REVIEW THE MAURETANIA'S BUILDERS. The Mauretania has been built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Ltd, of Wallsend and Walker on GRAND ENTRANCE ON BOAT DECK SHOWING PASSENGER LIFTS, naval architect in the design of large vessels in which a single screw was utilized for propulsion. In 1892 and 1893, the Cunard twin-screw sister snips Campania and Lucania, . with their speed of 22 knots, lowered the . Atlantic record to a few hours: over | five days--records which are yet un- beaten by British-owned steamships if we except the performance of the Lusitania during the last two or three weeks. Recent additions to the Cunard fleet include the spacious and steady Ivernia and Saxonia, of 14,000 gross tons, and the luxurious Caronia and Carmania, of 20,000 tons. Ever ready to take advantage of the latest de- velopments in ship building and ma- rine engineering, the Cunard com- pany, in the last-named vessel fitted propelling machinery on the turbine principle, a system which had previ- ously been decided upon for the giant vessels Lusitania and Mauretania. With these two new steamships, the magnificent fleet of the Cunard com- pany comprises twenty-three vessels, representing a total gross tonnage of 245,979. The following is a list of the vessels at present constituting the Cunard fleet: Mauretania, Lusitania, Carmania, turbines; Ivernia, Carpathia, Lucania, Campa- nia, Slavonia, Ultonia, Pannonia, Um- bria, Etruria, Sylvania, Brescia, Veria, Pavia, Cypria, Tyria, Saragossa, Alep- po, Cherbourg. Caronia, Saxonia, . Tyne. The history of the ship build- ing company carries us back to the early days of iron ships. In 1842, or jst two years «after the. Brit- annia commenced running, the first iron vessel ever built on the Tyne, the Prince Albert, was launched acres, with a river frontage of 107 yds., and there were three build- ing berths, the longest being 320 ft. Two hundred men at most were em- ployed, and the maximum annual out- put of ships was about 4,000 gross tons. The area of the Wallsend yard in 1880 when Mr. Hunter took charge of it; was under «seven acres.. ie area of the company's present prem- ises is seventy-eight acres, with a river frontage of about three-quarters of a mile. Last year twenty-five ves- sels of a total gross tonnage of 126,- 921 were launched from the com- pany's yards, this being the largest tonnage built by any firm in' the world during 1906 or in any one year. .The works when in full operation give employment to about 8,000 men and boys. In addition to the world-wide rep- utation of the company for the build- ing of floating graving docks, it has to its credit the building of about 800 merchant steamers of every de- scription. The company has made a special feature of Atlantic vessels, the chairman of the directors, G. B. Hun- ter, D. Sc., in particular having close- ly studied both the- great cargo-car- rying steamers and the _ high-speed liners now used in the Atlantic traf- fic, and, with C. S. Swan, another di- rector, he has watched every detail in the construction of the Mauretania. Swan, Hunter, & Wigham Richard- son's connection with the. Cunard FIRST-CLASS LOUNGE AND MUSIC ROOM. from the site of the present South Yard of the company's Neptune Works, Walker. The area of the ship yard in 1860 was only four company dates back to 1898, when they built the Ultonia. This steamer was followed by the large intermedi- ave liners, lyernia and . Carpathia,