BUILDING A NEW MAURETANIA

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22335, 24 February 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)

BUILDING A NEW MAURETANIA

Modern Liner to Bear a Famous Name A new Mauretania will be sailing the North Atlantic in 1939. She is at present called simply No. 1029, and is being built for the Cunard-White Star Company by Camtnell, Laird, and Co., at Birkenhead. When the old Mauretania sailed on her last voyage to the breaking up yard at Rosyth, in July, 1938, her name did not die. Though a ship may be given any name her owners please, no. two British vessels may bear the same name, so, in order to save this famous name for a new liner, it was transferred to a paddle steamer at Southampton. The new vessel will be launched in the middle of the year, and she is expected to be in commission by September, 1939. Although it was originally announced that the ship would be nearly 750 ft long, and be more than 30,000 tons gross, it is apparent that she will be much larger, and her gross tonnage is likely to be'nearly 43,000 tons. She will have 10 decks, including a sports deck with plenty of space for open-air activities for passengers. ’ 4 features of the ship s design will be a terraced bridge superstructure, cruiser stern, two funnels, and two masts. The outer shell has already risen to the sixth deck, and more than 600,000 of the 2,600,000 rivets in her construction have been driven in,*

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