TESTS WITH MODEL

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 27, 31 July 1936, Page 8

TESTS WITH MODEL

SISTER-SHIP OF QUEEN

MARY

(British Official Wireless.! RUGBY, July 29. It is expected that it will take 18 months to construct the hull of the sister-ship to the Queen Mary, and the launching ceremony will therefore probably take place in the spring of 1938.

Down on the books as No. 552, the new liner will be laid down in the same berth of Messrs. John Brown and Co., Clydebank, as was the Queen Mary. It is expected that she will be ready for. the Atlantic service in the summer of 1939. According to newspapers, she will be about 2000 tons greater than the Queen Mary, which has a tonnage of 80,773, and will cost about £5,500,000 to build, £500,000 more than the Queen Mary. She will have more speed. It is said that complete specifications have already been prepared and the first of the tests with a model made in an experimental tank at Clydebank. In this centre there is naturally the greatest satisfaction at the prospect of so much work, and the new liner will also involve outside contracts with a number of industries throughout the country. More than 700 men will be employed in the shipyard alone, and 25,000 in subsidiary trades throughout Britain. At least £1,500,000 will be spent in shipyard wages, and a larger sum will go to employees of outside contractors. That the contract has gone to the Clyde is a recognition of the satisfaction felt by its owners with the Queen Mary. ]