ships For Russia

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 132, 30 November 1935, Page 31

ships For Russia

Further particulars of the. contract signed in Moscow on July 13 between Machinoimport, Moscow, and the .Furness Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., Haverton Hill-on-Tees, lor the building of seveu cargo vessels for the Soviet timbercarrying trade are given by the Moscow NarJdny Bank, Ltd., London. The order .which, is to be completed within twelve months and involves more than £400,000, was placed on a cash basis. It1 is* one of the largest shipbuilding orders secured by North-East. . Coast firms since the war, and will provide work for about a year for a .large number of additional craftsmen-in the depressed areas who were previously unemployed. The ships will be just under 4000 tons deadweight each, some 320 ft in length, and fitted with tripleexpansion engines, which will be supplied by the North-Eastern B Marine Engineering Co., Ltd., of Wallsend. -The steel is to be provided by the South Durham Steel and Iron Co., Ltd., and the vessels will be specially strengthened for steaming through ice floes.

The new P. and O. steamer Strathmore, on her maiden trip to Bombay, made the journey from Marseilles in ten days, thus beating the Italian liner Victoria's record of eleven days from Genoa, this being 100 miles less distance. '..-'.

ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT "Figurehead."—Many thanks for your photo's. The subject of the Days Bay snap has gone north on H.M.S. Dunedin for inclusion in the Devonport Naval Base collection. I do not know of any other figureheads in this locality.—"Argus."