passenger capacity was 200 first class, 500 second class and 1,000 third class with a crew of 500 officers and men. "calgarian" had eight decks: a being the boat deck, b the promenade, c the bridge, d the shelter deck, e upper deck, f main deck, g the lower and h the orlop with passenger accommodations on a through f decks. a somewhat novel feature was provision of a "scouting" motor launch capable of 7 knots with wireless and of steel wire tethering it to the ship for use in fog.