GERMAN LINERS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 February 1930, Page 5

GERMAN LINERS

AN INCREASED SPEED

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LONDON, Feb. 18

w The E’urbpa, the Bremen’s sister ship, now rebuilt since last year’s disastrous fire, is undergoing speed trials in the North "‘Sea this week. It is claimed that the engine tests have already proved several knots faster than the Bremen, whose record is-, of four days .fourteen and a half hours from New York to Cherbourg. Tile Europa is expected to attack it on the first crossing on, the 19th March. She carries a crew of nearly a thousand and has accommodation for twenty-two hundred passengers. The Europa will he followed by a further monster Columbus, whose maiden trip will be ou 23rd May, Germans claim tile trio will make the fastest weekly trans-Atlantic service in history. Meanwhile there is a big effort afoot to challenge German supremacy. The Cunard Coy. is laying down two liners of sixty-five. thousand and seventy thousand tons respectively, while the - White Star Coy’s two new twenty-seven thousand tons motor Vessels will be in the mail service.