MAMMOTH LINERS
PLANNED BY UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD. (Ecc. July 30, 7.40 p.m.) New York, July 29. Tfie United States Shipping Board announces that it will build two of the largest ocean liners in the world, with a speed of thirty knots, enabling them to. cross the AKantic under four days. Each will be 1000 feet long. 100 feet beam, with 35 feet of draught, and a gross tonnage of 55,000. Each, will carry three thousand-passengers' and one thousand of a crew; The liners will burn oil, have a cruising, radius of seven thousand miles, and be practically unsuitable—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. (Kee. July 30, 11.5 p.m.) New York, July 24. The New York- "Tinies's" Washington correspondent reports that the United States Shipping Board announces that 729 American steamers, aggregating 4,235,971 dead-weight tons, will shortly be placed in 62 regular cargo and passenger lines to all parts of the world. A line 'between New York and Melbourne will be established with threo steamers, each of about 9000 dead-weight tons, with a speed of between ten and eleven knots, monthly sailings—AU6.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 261, 31 July 1919, Page 5
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181MAMMOTH LINERS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 261, 31 July 1919, Page 5
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