WORK ON NEW LINER.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 374, 4 March 1937, Page 8

WORK ON NEW LINER.

1000 MEN EMPLOYED

Sister Ship to the Queen Mary

(By Air Mail —Own Correspondent)

London, January 4

The Queen Mary’s sister ship—at present known as “No. 552,” in Messrs John Brown’s yard on the Clyde—is almost certain to be the bigg, st ship in the world. Now that her great steel backbone is almost completed it is estimated that she will have a tonnage of 90,000. The Queen Mary is 80,773 tons. Over 1,000 men are finding employment on the contract alone, and they will be gradually augmented as work progresses.

The design follows that of The Queen Mary, with minor modifications and improvements which the experience gained in building the first liner has rendered possible. Hopes are entertained on Clydeside that Messrs John Brown will also secure a £7,500,000 battleship order. If they do, the amount of work on hand would be in excess of anything known in an individual yard on the Clyde since 1912.

Other signs that 1937 will be Britain’s prosperity year are: Cunard-White Star have placed an order for a miniature Queen Mary between 30,000 and 40,000 tons with Cammell-Laird of Birkenhead. At Newcastle, the keel of the new battleship George V. has been laid. The vessel, will take three years to build and will give; work to* 4,000 men.