THE AQUITANIA.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1767, 4 June 1913, Page 7

THE AQUITANIA.

A SHIPBUILDING ACI/IEVEMENT.

•Vs a successful shipbuilding achievement the launch of t'ho Cunard liner Amiitanm at Clydebank has ncvor been excelled. lho huge vessel was floated almost to the, minute arranged mouths ago; slio Was all wutcr-boriio sniin. lOscc. after the launchin" triggers were released and lmiu. lOtec. ntCr-r the was first «ou to move; and within nil hour later she was safely berthed in her builders' fitting-out basin, where she will vecoivo her machinery and bo niado ready for sea. Messrs. John Brown and Co. received the enthusiastic congratulations of the great gathering of shipbuilders and engineers who had assembled ip seo tire launch, and at the luncheon afterwards a high tribute to their skill and the earnestness with which they had faced the ninny difficult problems involved in the construction of the vessel was paid by Mr. A. A. Booth, the chairman of tho Cunard Company. Thus the first stage in the construction of Great Britain's largest liner lias bsen passed. About a year hciieo tire Aquitnnia will be completed and taken down the Clyde. There is, however, a great. deal of work to be done before then, Perhans the most powerful, the most: prrfeet, and also the most complicated installation of turbine machinery that has ever been fitted on board one vessel has to b? placcd on board, and elaborate though nil tlio preliminary work may have been, (hero will bo difficulties when (lie engines eomo to bo put into tho positions in which tiicy must do (ho actual work loi which they arc intended..