 Due to a capacity of 1,452 passengers and crew of 211, special attention had to be focused on life boats.Fourteen sets of Welin davits were fitted to each side with a variety of lifeboats and some rafts with a capacity for 1,663 persons, 1,613 in boats.In February 1921 "Mount Clay" inaugurated a new first class mail delivery system for mail to Germany in which mail planes would meet the ship at Cuxhaven for transfer of special bags for air delivery within Germany.