NEW CUNARD LINER.
FAST CONSTRUCTION WORK.
PREPARATION FOR. LAUNCHING
LONDON, August 20. The new Cunard liner, which, with a 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 oil the vessel at the Clvdc yards ot John Brown and Company has been greatly speeded up. Factories and foundries throughout Britain are supplying material and are working 24 hours a day. The stocks on which the liner is taking shape have proved too small. Part of the stem 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. , .„ , xl , + The liner, which will be the largest in the world, will cost £6,000,000. She will be 1018 ft lone, with a gross tonnage of 15,000, and will have engines able to develop 200,000 horse-power.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 51, Issue 278, 7 September 1931, Page 5
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