LARGE LINER FOR N.Z. SERVICE
o CONSTRUCTION "BY SHAW, SAVILL, COMPANY LONDON, February 11. The shipbuilding company of Swan, Hunter, and Wigham Richardson Ltd., has received the ibiggest order placed with a Tyne firm since the Mauretania was built. Jt will be for a 26,500-ton motor vessel for 'the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company which will be built at the, same berth at Wallsend-in-Tyne as was used for -the Mauretania. The new liner is expected to-make her maiden 'voyage early m lyvJb, opening a new route for passenger traffic to New Zealand, via Cape Town, Durban, and 'main Australian ports. She will carry between 500 and 600 cabin class in addition to cargo space, 'the yesscJ will have a refrigerated capacity of 500 000 cubic feet, -including 8500 ft, specially for chilled 'beef. The liner 4s expected to make her, maiden voyage -in excellent time.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22016, 13 February 1937, Page 15
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