NEW GIANT LINER.
SPEEDIER WORK PLANNED. British Official Wireless. (Received 9.30 a.m.) RUGBY, August IG. Plans for construction of the CunardWhite Star liner No. 552 have been completed at John Brown's Clydebank yard. The new liner will be of 2000 tons greater displacement than her sistership, Queen Mary, but it is anticipated she will be built in less actual working time. The work of drilling the keel will be begun in October, and four months have been alloted for shaping the frames, together with all the plates from keel to watermark. This work took seven months on the Queen Mary.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 194, 17 August 1936, Page 7
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100NEW GIANT LINER. Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 194, 17 August 1936, Page 7
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