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AMERICA LAYS FIRST SHIP FOR SYDNEY RUN TRADE WITH AUSTRALIA XEW YORK. Saturday A message from Quincy. Massacp setts, says officials representing city, the State and the nation ot ciated at the ceremonies at the lari, of the keel of the first of two vest*?, for the Matson Line's service bet»f. San Francisco and Sydney. The first will be launched in F.k ruary, 1932, and the second a in months later. The ships have yet been named. They will be vessels. The estimated cost is nrnthan £1.600.000 each. Each vessel will have a length 632 feet, a beam of 79 feet, draft c I 2S feet and a displacement of 25 8b tons. The guaranteed trial trip tp*,,' | i? 20i knots, which will enable the schedule of 19 days for the vow,, from San Francisco to Sydney to hi j reduced. They will accommodai* ; 620 first-class passengers and 217 the tourist class. The Australian Commissioner-Get-eral, Mr. H. Brookes, in a congratui,. | rory message, expressed the hope thr i the vessels, when completed, wogh! return on every occasion from Am tralia to the United States laden wti Australian products.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 975, 19 May 1930, Page 10
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191BIG FAST LINERS Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 975, 19 May 1930, Page 10
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