DAMAGE TO SHIP

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31880, 7 January 1969, Page 11

DAMAGE TO SHIP

Repairs To Turbines

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright ’ SOUTHAMPTON, Jan. A

Damage to the new super liner Queen Elizabeth II is more serious than was first feared, the Associated Press has reported.

Engineers stripping the ship’s turbines in Southampton dock last night found that rows of blades in the huge starboard turbine have been shattered.

The damaged sections will be flown to Scotland today for repairs and rebalancing, according to a spokesman for John Brown Engineering, which built the turbines. The new liner has been plagued by trouble since her first speed trials, when she was forced to return to port with an oil leak. Last month a trial cruise to the Canary Islands was cut short when turbine troubles developed. Cunard refused to accept the liner, and her maiden voyage to New York was cancelled. Hundreds of workmen from Scotland have been brought to Southampton to complete the liner’s unfinished cabins, and attend to the faulty turI bines.

‘ Composer Dead.— Professor Montague Fawcett Phillips, i the British composer and proJ fessor of music at the Royal 'Academy of Music has died, at ' the age of 83. The best known I of his works is the Boadicea • | overture, which he wrote at ,the age of 22.—London, January 6.