2014.021

Purchase

Purchase

Museum Collections.

1906 - 1906

Date(s) Created: 1906 Date(s): 1906

Notes: Archives 2014.021.0021 Published in The Christian Herald, Oct. 3, 1906, pg. 830. ==== PROVISIONS FOR A MODERN LINER FEW persons have any idea of the provisions that have to be put on board a Transatlantic Liner for the sustenance of its passengers and crew during a voyage. One can but wish that Noah, who had probably the first experience in providing for a crew afloat, could see a list of the provisions stowed away in the hold of a modern steamship. Capacious, beyond the ideas of our ancestors, as his vessel was, it would have taxed its convenience to have found room for the supplies provided for the table of the ocean travelers of to-day. The Deutschland, on a recent voyage, had a passenger list of eleven hundred persons booked for New York from Hamburg. Besides their personal luggage and freight of various kinds, and besides the five thousand tons of coal required to fill the maw of its engines, it took on board the following quantities of provisions for the consumption of the passengers and crew, none of whom we imagine could have suffered from hunger and thirst on the voyage: ---- [illustration] A Trans-Atlantic Liner’s Food Supply for a Single Voyage ---- 400 tons of water 13,000 pounds of beef 2,200 pounds of mutton 1,200 pounds of lamb 600 pounds of ham 900 pounds of pork 1,200 pounds of veal 375 barrels of beer 3,000 bottles of beer 2,200 quarts of milk 300 quarts of cream 1,000 blocks of ice-cream 40 tons of ice 1,300 pounds of butter 1,700 dozen eggs 600 pounds of oatmeal and groats 6,000 fowls 175 casks of potatoes 400 pounds of tongue 75 casks of various vegetables 200 dozen lettuce 90 casks of flour 350 pounds of yeast 8,500 pounds of various fresh fruits 40 casks oysters and mussels 1,700 pounds of fish ==== ==== Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2014-05-23