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MRS. MASSEY CHRISTENS A NEW VESSEL.
(Rec. April 24, 5.5 p.m.) London, April 23. Mrs. W. V. Massey performed the christening ceremony in conneotionwith the launching of the Union. Company s Armagh.—Aus.-N.Z. - Cable Assn. . lThe Armagh is practically a sister ship to the Northumberland, a vessel of the Federal and Shire Line. When the war started the Armagh was in tho builders' hands, but owing to the rosn.. of war vessels she,has, for some considerable time, remained in a state or semi-completion. Now, with the-sud-den decision of the British bovernment to build cargo vessels, she has been' completed. Tho vessel, which is one of some 12,000 tons gross, is intended for the New Zealand meaftrade, and like her sister ship, will also carry passengers. She is fitted with the latest cargo-working appli-ances,-and a powerful set of refrigerating machinery.]
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3062, 25 April 1917, Page 4
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