GREAT CUNARD LINER

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21198, 23 June 1934, Page 21

GREAT CUNARD LINER

LAUNCH BY QUEEN MARY ON SEPTE.MKEK 26 Advice was received yesterday by Mr G. M. Warren, joint passenger R-LnagfT of the C'jiu'ird Line at Liverpec;!, who i.i vi.-i'.in;; Christchurch, that the huge new "liner, at present known as No. 531, which is being built by the Cunard-White Star Lines, will be launched by her Majesty Queen Mary on September 26. The ceremony will be performed at the Clydebank yards of Messrs John Brown and Company. The new ship will, so Mr Warren understands, be called the Britannia. A description of the capacity of this great vessel. 1018 feet long, and weighing 73,000 tons, was given in The Press" yesterday in the report of an interview with Mr Warren. Yesterday afternoon Mr Warren received further details. The engines would be capable of developing 200,000 horsepower, he said, and the current on ward would be sufficient to light a city with a population of 100,000. The rem frame weighed 100 tons and required a special train from Darlington w Middlesbrough, and a special st&amer from there to Glasgow. There would be 30,000 tons of steel ¥• the liner, 10,000 electrical fittings, «» miles of carpet, and when the full complement of 4000 passengers was •ooard, 200,000 pieces of crockery.