THE NEW CUNARDER
READY TO LAUNCH NEXT YEAR
GIGANTIC DIMENSIONS
(British Official Wireless.) (Received ISth February, 1 p.m.) RUGBY, 17th February, j The now 70,000-ton Cunard liner may bo ready for launch by the end of next February, i£ the p/jsent expectations of Messrs. John Brown, tho builders, are realised. Work, both in the Clydeside yard and in factories and foundries in various industrial centres, is progressing rapidly with day and night shifts. Tho transport of special parts from places as far distant as Darlington invites problems for which many solutions have been found. Tho weight of the rudder is 150 tons, requiring a specially prepared vessel to carry it from Middlesbrough to the Clyde. The gigantic size of tho new liner is such that each of tho funnels would contain, the hulls of four steamers of the first Cunard fleet.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 41, 18 February 1931, Page 11
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141THE NEW CUNARDER Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 41, 18 February 1931, Page 11
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