ABSTRACT
The marvellous development in shipbuilding which has taken place within the last twelve or fifteen years, and the enormous increase in the size of the new vessels which competing nations are now forced to build in order to cope with the wide expansion of the world’s passenger traffic, has brought about a complete revolution in the methods employed, both as regards their internal planning and their equipment. The problems which arise after the construction of a ship has been finally settled by the naval designer are, indeed, in many ways so precisely similar to those requiring solution on land that the Cunard Company recently decided to employ a well-known firm of quantity surveyors to take out quantities and measure up variations on the Aquitania, now in course of completion. Doubtless an architect unaccustomed to ship designing and naval construction will sometimes suggest schemes which, on examination, may be found impracticable.
