GIANT CUNARD LINER.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20101, 3 December 1930, Page 11

GIANT CUNARD LINER.

CONTRACT SIGNED. WORK FOR 3000 MEN

(I NITED I'RKSS ASSOCIATION*—IJY ELECTRIC TELEGUAPII COI'VItIGIIT.) (Received December 2nd, 8.15 p.m.) LONDON, December 2. The Cunard Company has signed a contract with John Brown and Company, of Clydebank, for the construction of the first of two Cunard liners to cost £6.0G0,00D, the construction ot which will provide work for three thousand men, und work will begin at once. |_A London message in August stated: Tho Cunard Company has decided to proceed w.tli the bui.dinj: ot two mammoth li*«rs for the Atlantic service, at a cost of £.0,000,000 each. The new vessels will be tho largest and fastest in the world, and it is beheced they will restore British prestige in shipping. Tho first, which will be built on the Clyde, will be of 70.000toi. register, and over 1000 feet long, with a speed of 30 knots—a speed which is excelled now only by destroyers. She will have high-pressure steam boilers, with oil fuel. This vessel is outside the ordinary insurance market, but the Government has adopted the unusual course of undertaking a proportion of the insurance beyond the amount that could be ord.narily effected. This removes the last obstacle to the construction of the stenrners, and provides welcome work for the Clyde. The agreement will cover the second vessel, which would be built on the Tyne.]