Erik Larson Quotes

Anyone Looking Up From The Dock Saw Only Beauty, On A Monumental Scale, While On The Far Side Of The Ship Men Turned Black With Dust As They Shoveled Coal - 5,690 Tons In All - Into The Ship Through Openings In The Hull Called "side Pockets." The Ship Burned Coal At All Times. Even When Docked It Consumed 140 Tons A Day To Keep Furnaces Hot And Boilers Primed And To Provide Electricity From The Ship's Dynamo To Power Lights, Elevators, And, Very Important, The Marconi Transmitter, Whose Antenna Stretched Between Its Two Masts. When The Lusitania Was Under Way, Its Appetite For Coal Was Enormous. Its 300 Stokers, Trimmers, And Firemen, Working 100 Per Shift, Would Shovel 1,000 Tons Of Coal A Day Into Its 192 Furnaces To Heat Its 25 Boilers And Generate Enough Superheated Steam To Spin The Immense Turbines Of Its Engines.

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