Express Steamers
ATLANTIC SERVICE
NEW VESSELS BUILDING
By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. Reed. 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Monday. Mr. Laurence Wilder’s project for a trans-Atlantic service of express steamers will become operative in 1930, maintaining a daily service between Long Island and Southampton and Havre.
The American Shipping Board, won over by experiments with model vessels, may grant a loan from its fund of £25,000,000. The Brown-Boveri Company is sponsoring the project, which will be named the London-Paris Steamship Company, otherwise the Blue Ribbon Line.
Vessels are being laid down immediately. They will cost £3,200,000 each, and will resemble huge destroyers, 800 feet long, and 80 feet wide. They will have 12 boilers, of superheated steam type.—A. and N.Z
A London cablegram of September 17 read as follows: “An American shipbuilder, Mr. Laurence Wilder, who has arrived at Plymouth, has disclosed that he is considering, with other New York capitalists, the establishment of a daily service of express steamers betwee-i Long Island and Plymouth. They would cross the Atlantic in four da3S.“
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 196, 8 November 1927, Page 1
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