Worldshaker was built in England at the end of the Fifty Years War and launched in 1845. Still the largest juggernaut in existence, she is now slower than the Prussian, Austrain and Russian juggernauts.
(for expanded close-ups, click on hotspots: the Bridge and funnels, or the prow and the town the juggernaut has just missed rolling over
Here's the route travelled by Worldshaker in the novel, from southern India to the Malay peninsula.
SOME VITAL STATISTICS
Length: 3956.9 metres (12,982 ft.)
Width: 1,170.4 metres (3,840 ft.)
Height to top of Bridge: 402.4 metres (1,320 ft.)
Height to top of funnels: 496.2 metres1(,628 ft.)
Weight: 3,110,776.4 tonnes (3,429,044 tons)
Number of decks: 53
Number of boilers: 12
Number of cranes: 104
Number of rollers: 340
Number of viewing bays: 24
Number of funnels: 6
Upper Decks population: 10,040 approx.
Filthies: 2,130 approx.
Eiko Ojala has produced two cutaway diagrams showing part of the Upper Decks (including the Bridge) and part of the Lower Decks (including Viewing Bay 17). The diagrams appear in the book, but the detail is too fine to reproduce clearly.
Only you can see it – by clicking on the hotspots of the cutaway diagrams. Take a wander around the juggernaut! Check out the interior of the Bridge or the Northumberland Room. Check out the cows and pigs on Third Deck (every animal different!) and the storage rooms with sheep. Inspect Mr Gibber's classroom and the Norfolk Library! And what about the coal mounds on Bottom Deck? you can almost count the individual lumps! |
