FRANCE'S BID.
Largest and Fastest Liner
Planned.
ATLANTIC BLUE RIBAND.
(Received 9.50 a.m.)
PAKIS, January 18,
France'is to enter the Atlantic race with' the world's largest and fastest electrically propelled passenger liner, the order for which has , ' been placed with the St. Nazaira shipyards for delivery in the spring of 19.34. The new vessel will be 1000 ft long and her speed wiir-be 30 knots. She is to have four propellers, driven by electric motors, which will develop 160,000 horse-power. ; ■ '
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 15, 19 January 1931, Page 7
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80FRANCE'S BID. Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 15, 19 January 1931, Page 7
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