NEW STEAMERS.
There has just been launched at Linthouse tho twin-screw steamer Grampian, the first of t-\vo iinq new boats designed for tho Allan Line service between Glasgow nnd Canada. Th« vessel in some 602 feet in loncth, and has a gross register of about 10,000 tons. Sho will furnish accommodation for 500 first nnd second class passengers, and will carry some 1400 passengom in the thirdclufcs, which is titled with four-berth looms. Tho fitting and furnishing of tho ship is of that advanced type which is now customary in the North Atlantic passenger trade. The Grampian, which in to bo propelled by a double set of triple-expansion engines, is expected to make tho sea, passngo between Moville mid Bimouski in leas than aevon days — a material advance on the existing service. A sister ship, the Hesperian, is well advanced in point of construction, and will bo ready for next spring. j
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 78, 28 September 1907, Page 13
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152NEW STEAMERS. Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 78, 28 September 1907, Page 13
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