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27,000-Ton Vessel Dominion Monarch LAUNCHING NEXT JUNE
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(Eeceive-d 20, 1.50 p.m.) LONDON t Dec. 19. Swan, Hunter, Wigham and Kichardson are building at Wallsend, to the order of the Shaw Savill and Albion Company, their largest vessel since the JJauretania — namely, the Dominion Monarch, of 27,000 tons gross, 16,000 deadweight, length 682 feet, and bveadth 84i feet. The vessel will have four screws and will be equipped for cold storage. She will have accomniodation for 525 one-class passengers. Tho liner will be launched in June and will make her maiden voyage in February, 1939. She will establish a new passenger route to New Zealand, calling at Madeira, Teneriffe, South Africa, Fremantle, Melbourne and Sydney, and Teaching New Zealand in'35 days. Her speed will be 19^ knots or over.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 74, 20 December 1937, Page 7
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