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Some time ago, a paragraph in a newspaper opened a window of memory for me, writes J. E. Macrae, in the Blue Feter. The news item that the Soviet Government had given orders that the old Imperial yacht Livadia should be broken up. It further stated that the yacht had been bullt

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had floated many a ship, but surely never such a one as this.

scale worthy of a Czar from which Popoff and his corps of engineers hoped great things. They thought she would revolutionise ocean travel. Everyone was to travel in comfort on steady ships. Mr. Pearce and his Clyde shipbuilders were under no such illusion. The Livadia had

no successors.

Imperial Apartments

Was

on the

The Imperial apartments in the The Russian Anthem - upper structure were spacious, and The band blared out the stately had twelve feet head room. Some Russian National Anthem; the of the saloons were magnificent, but crowds cheered and cheered and there was nothing that has not been presently began to melt away; and surpassed in comfort, luxury and fussy tug-boats ranged up alongside spaciousness in recent Atlantic the flag-decked Livadia to take her steamers, built for anyone to travel

in. There into the fitting-out basin.

a touch of the The official luncheon followed, an bizarre ta the decoration and colour- affair of dainty food, long tables and ing of the Crimean Tartar saloon, spotless linen, the perfums of but we have become accustomed to flowers, the uniforms of the Russian Russian schemes of decoration since and British naval and military of that time. A fountain rising from looking brimless hats, a few beauti the reception room on the cers, the priests in their queer a flower bed was a unique part of upper fully gowned ladies, and the men deck. Convenient access to all the mostly in frock-coats and top hats. principal rooms was provided by a The toasta were queen," and the band played "God and across the ship, and was floored drunk "The wide corridor which ran lengthwise and was of a peculiar construction, Save the Queen!" "His Majesty the and lined with marble, like a palace adopted in order that her august Czar," and the band played "God on shore. Large spaces

of open owner should not suffer from the

Save Our Noble Czar'a few briet deck surrounded the lofty deck- motion of the vessel at san. The speeches, and carriages with prane houses, so that they did not seem Livadia was built, not for the Eming horses took away

the pretty out of proportion. Outside the line press, Marie Feodorovna, but for her ladies, the priests and the glittering of bulwarks a platform was sup- father-in-law, the Czar Alexander II officers, and the sounds of the ham ported by columns based of Russia, known as the "Liberator," since it was by his ukase that the broke out. The show was over and the working of the ship and on it mers driving rivets kome again under-body. This platform was for serfs were made free. Apart from work resumed. That was

red. were stowed the anchors, boats, etc. that, the news item was probably letter day in the boy's life. For the A large steam launch and two correct, for the yacht was pid, had first time he had a glimpse into a smaller launches were aft and there been neglected, and could not be of

new world, a world of Imperial was an imposing array of gigs, any use to the Soviet Government or power, where there were real kings cutters and lifeboats. A distinct to anyone else. Imagine the de- and princesses, and officers atanding novelty was the lighting of the large light of an enger-eyed boy, even then at attention, and flowers in profu-spaces by electric light. The system crazy about ships, when he was in- sion and mysterious yachts, and an used was the Japbloko are light of vited to see the launching of the over-shadowing Czar, and all aorta three hundred and fifty candle Imperial yacht Livadia at Fairfield of wonderful things. shipyard on a bright July morning

power, and so crude was the in Bulge on Her Sides

stallation at that early date, that in 1880. It was his first launch;

The Livadia seen in strict profile the feed wires were not qven insul- indeed, his first visit to a ship-yard. was at first sight much like any ated. Early in her first commission The strange ship had been the talk other big steam yacht. But view an unfortunate stoker was killed by of Glasgow for months, and thou- her end on sands were anxious to see her.

and the difference at a bare live wire, which led to a sug- once was apparent. On each side, gestion that such wires would have Eager Crowds

close down to the water-line, there to be enclosed, so as to prevent such People in crowds were streaming Was a bulge, very much like the accidents in future. It should be AIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES-Vla Saigon. Singapore, through the great wide-open gates modern battleships. She was the invented the incandescent light, but "blisters" оп the aides of our remembered that Edison had just of the ship-yard; every point of vantage was black with people and beamiest abip ever built. She had it was not yet ready for use on ship- thousands were massed on the op-

a hundred and fifty-three feet beam board. - posite side of the river. A short hundred and sixty feet, so that her to an overall length of about two

The Grand Duko walk through a dark workshop and shape, as seen from above, was a many years head of the Russian The Gand Duke Alexander, for

lending to we were at the foot of the gangway pointed oval. She had three funnels Navy, and now living in New York, the seats raised high abreast, and five, masts, or rather has informed the writer that she beside the launching platform. Crowds everywhere, except on the dag-poles, two abreast forward and was found unsuitable for carrying railed platform under the bows of

two abreast aft and one in the passengers owing to her unusual the strange ship. Looking up, wo

centre. Her bridge extended right motion at sea in merely fresh wen- across the ship forward of the fun-ther, and that she was taken over mounted by the double-headed eagle have been for the captain or the meaning "Experiment." Her en- nels. What a lovely walk that must by the navy and renamed Opit, of Russia, crowned and bearing the sceptre and orb of Empire. Above,

officer of the watch! The "blister" gines were taken out and placed; was the real ship. The apparent separately in gunboats, and she was floated the Imperial Standard. All ship was in reality a palace reared used as a machinery school storeship was quiet, save for the crash of upon it for the comfort and pleasure and school for submarine mining. topping mauls with which workmen of a Czar, who had no need to count He added there was no way to dry- were knocking away the shores which held the launching ways firm "blister" was flat on the bottom and clean her bottom by careening her his whims. The dock her, but that they managed to ly together. Then a knot of people rounded on the sides, and as it was with the aid of a one-sided floating assembled on the platform and the sound of chanting made everyone

wider than tho structure above it, dock they had at Sebastopol, The was bent over to meet It. It was, Czar never saw his yacht. He was look round to see a group of bearded Thursday, 27th February, 10 a.m. priests of the Greek Church, in full in a general way of speaking, as if assassinated in his own capital In Friday, 14th March.

canonicals, pass in procession to the a ship were sitting in a life-buoy. March, 1881, the year following the platform, where a table was speedily give great steadiness at sea and the yacht built on ordinary lines, while The idea was that the beam would launch. The new Czar had a new

M. TAKEUCHI, Manager. The chanting died away, to be fol-rounded underbody would allow any the Livadia

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lowed by the voice of prayer and the

run on it harmlessly and Sebastopol, responses of the priests and acolytes. with pitching and rolling. That without break, thus doing away The chief priest, perhaps an arch this was partially correct was soon bishop, in his gorgeous vestment, shown in stepped forward alone and dipped a Biscay, where the rolling was re a gale in the Bay of bunch of hyssop into a vessel of ported not to exceed a degree and a holy water and blessed the ship half. However, she rose

on the subject to rent after February 15. the sprinkled water, first on one bow steep scas and her great flat bottom, Consignees of cargo and then on the other. Then Mr. nearly an acre in area, smashed "Asia" are reminded to take Pearce, the builder of the ship, hat down on the sea and stove in some delivery of their goods which will be in hand, led forward the young and of her compartments, so that she subject to rent after February 17.

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It must not be thought that this ship of four thousand tons displace ment and about eleven thousand tons measurement was merely a fonting home for a Ciar. She was the climax of years of work, study and experience of a brilliant Russian; Vice-Admiral Popot. During the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-8 he had bullt some circular ironclads, one of which at least was a hundred and twenty feet in diameter. He thought that by building this type of shallow-draught ship he could get a steady gun platform for very big guns and get in near enough to bombard the Turkish coast towns. They were called "Popoffkas," after the inventor, and must have been boxes of contraptions, for they were said to have nine propellers to turn them in all directions and hold them there as requisite for airing the guna. Popoff won over the Grand Duke Constantine completely to his Ideas and the Livadia was the re suit. She was an experiment, on a

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