WORK ON NEW LINER

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 18, 5 February 1937, Page 13

WORK ON NEW LINER

-Own Gorrespondent.)

SiHtr Ship le Tke Queen Mary

10Q0 MEN EMPLOYED

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EONBQN, Jan. 4. Thg Qnepn M^xy's a^H g&B—at fresept known as "Mo. 5q2, 5' in 3de§svs, ohn B^m'I ynx^ on tOO Qly4^— §lmost certain to be the biggest si4p ip fhe world. Now that her great stepl backbQne i? flmoet completed it is mtipiate^ thai fhe will haye a tonnage of 90.Q00. Th« Igueen Hary is 80,773 tona. "' Over '1*000 men' ate hnding- employgient on the contract alone, and they ypill be gr^du^Uy angipentgd as work progresseir The design follows fhgt of the Qiieen llaryj ^itli minor modifications and im|i(Tovements whieh the experienee gained |n bn|lding t^e flrsf liner has rendgrgd possible. Rnpes a?e entertained on Clydesido that Messrs John Brown will also *rn*4 % #?i§9fij9{iQ ^aWeship Pidej. u fhey do, the amount.of w-ork pn haiid would be in excess of anythipg kpoWn in ap. ind|yidual yard on the Clyd" «incd 1242' Other " sigps . 1937 will be Britain's Prggperity Year arer— ^ Ounard-Wbito^ Staif "havc piace^. order for a whiaturf Queen Mavy- between ^0,000 qnd 49>000 tbns witl^ 'Cgtn-inell-Laird of Birkenhead. At Newcastle the keel oi the new ^attlesl^ip SeorgG'V'. Jjas been laiil. 'jl'? vessel wili take three years to bnild nnd wiH eiye m}tk to. 4,0.00 w\\-