GENERAL CABLES
NEW GIANT LINER
BRITAIN’S CLAIM FOR
SUPREMACY.
United Press Association.— By Electrn Telegraph.—Copyright.;
RUGBY, Merch 1.
On May 28th, Britain’s new giant liner, Empress of Britain, built for the Canadian Pacific Company will be launched on the Clyde. It is stated that she will prove a formidable rival of the German, liner Bremen; m any case she will set up a new Atlantic speed record for the journey from Southampton to Quebec, will be made in fiye days or less. When she is put into the service early next year, Canada will be brought a day and .a half nearer to this country. With a tonnage of 45,000, the liner will he 20,000 tons larger than any ship now making' the journey on the Saint Lawrence river.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19300306.2.55
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 6 March 1930, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
129GENERAL CABLES Hokitika Guardian, 6 March 1930, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in