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NEW STEAMER’S MAIDEN TRIP (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, September 4. To-morrow the new passenger ship Worthing leaves Newhaven on her maiden voyage to Dieppe. She is of 2.100 tons, is equipped with triple-expansion turbines, imd has been specially built for eross-Channel service. Glass-en-closed lounge decks are a feature of tlie Worthing, which also has two restaurants, twelve cabins de luxe, and exceptionally large sleeping saloons and drawing rooms for women passengers. Tiie vessel cost roughly £200,000. At full speed she steams 25 knots, which makes her one of the world's fastest passenger ships.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 289, 6 September 1928, Page 11
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