The Aquitania Launched.

New York Times 100 years ago today, April 22, 1913:
Largest Liner Ever Built in Britain and to be the Swiftest Afloat.
    GLASGOW, April 21.— The largest steamship ever built in Great Britain, the Cunard liner Aquitania, was successfully launched on the Clyde to-day.
    The vessel is double shelled and carries boats sufficient to accommodate 4,250 persons, the entire complement of passengers and crew.
    She is a vessel of about 47,000 tons gross.
    The Aquitania will not be the largest vessel in the world in point of tonnage, but she will be the largest in dimensions. Her tonnage, 47,000, is 3,000 less than that of the two great German liners, the Imperator and the Vaterland, the former of which will before long make her maiden trip to this port, but the Aquitania's length of 901 feet and her beam of 97 feet are greater than the dimensions of the Hamburg-American ships.
    Moreover, it is expected that the Aquitania will be the swiftest liner in the world, half a knot an hour faster than the German vessels and faster even than the Lusitania and the Mauretania.
    The new German liners will each be able to carry 5,000 passengers, while the Aquitania is designed to accommodate 3,250. She will have a crew of 1,000.
    The Aquitania has a double hull, like those of the Lusitania, Mauretania, and the reconstructed Olympic, and various other new devices for safety have been employed in her construction. The Cunard Company officials say she will be the "last word" in comfort and luxury.