GIANT NEW LINER
HUSTLE ON CLYDESIDE. • LONDON, August 20. The new Cunard liner, which, with ft speed of more than 30 knots, will be the fastest afloat, will be launched in February, six months earlier than the experts had expected. Work on the vess.l at the Clyde yards of John Brown and Company, has been greatly speeded up. Factories and foundries throughout Britain are supplying material and are working 24 hours of the day. The stocks on which the liner is taking shape have 'proved too small. Part of the stern is hanging over the river. A great expanse.of the banks of the Clyde has been cut away at a cost of £BO,OOO to provide room for the launching. The liner, which will be the largest in the will cost £6,000,000. She will be 1018 ft long, with a gross tonnage of 75,000 and will have engines able to develop 200,000 horsepower.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 September 1931, Page 5
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152GIANT NEW LINER Hokitika Guardian, 1 September 1931, Page 5
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