WHITE STAR LINERS AT WEMBLEY

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 82, 5 April 1924, Page 24

WHITE STAR LINERS AT WEMBLEY

A..display of considerable shipbuilding interest at the great Exhibition at Wembley will be that of. the White Star Line. This will consist of a little iieet o£ model ocean liners, constructed by Messrs, Harland and Wolff. The models will vary in length up to 201't. and they hare beeu built to scale so as to represent accurately the' great steamers of the White Star fleet. ' The most strikina one will be that of the Majestic, in which there is reorbduced the palatial suite of public rocfms, including tlie dinins: saloon, the lounge, the palm court, and the restaurant. Alongside this great model there will be one of the Queen of the Atlantic, built away back'in 1843, and providing a remarkable contrast in size and passenger accommodation. There will also be a model of t{is Doric, of Ifi.OCO'tons.^ whicl] is the latest addition lo the. firm's Canadian passenger fleet, nnd' the _ first vessel^ designed with de luxa cabins for second-class passenger*. This will show a complete range of cabin interiors, and it will be "staeed" in a reproduction of Quebec Harbour. Another exhibi^-rthat of the Ceramic, of 20,000 tonsi^will be shown in a reproduction of Sydney Harbour. The Majestic, ia, of course, the German-built Bismarck,"and the largest-vessel in the world' (notwithstanding the American claims on behalf of. the Leviathan) but tho others are all of British construction. The Doric and; the Ceramic both came from* Queen's Island, and although 'there is at the .moment; no way of finding but where, the Queen \ of the 'Atlantic was constructed, it is pretty safe to assume that .she, too, was faiilt somewhere- in Britain. At any rate, the models are all, without exception, of Belfast workmanship, qnd therefore high-class