MIGHTY OVATION
QUEEN MARY DOCKS *NEW YORK RECEPTION NEW YORK, June 1
The liner Queen Mary was given a mighty ovation from tugs, pleasure craft, and passing ferries as she pulled into quarantine and dropped anchor for routine immigration and sanitary inspections. On shore thousands lined the Brooklyn and Staten Island waterfronts for a first glimpse of the huge liner hours before she was due to reach the upper harbour. Thousands more were waiting at The Battery in the early afternoon as she started to steam slowly towards the North River pier, where she docked at 4.10 p.m. It is officially stated that fog slowed the Queen Mary, which averaged 29.13 knots over the measured course of 3158 nautical miles from Cherbourg breakwater to Ambrose Light in 4 days 12 hours 24 minutes, her arriving time being 9.3 a.m. This compares with the Normandie's record of 4 days 11 hour 3 42 minutes over 3192 miles at a rate of 29.64 knots.
ADVANCE FOR SISTER SHIP LONDON, Juno 1. The "Daily Herald" says that the Government is advancing £5,000,000 to the Cunard-White Star Company for building a sister ship to the Queen Mary, the King George.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 130, 3 June 1936, Page 9
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196MIGHTY OVATION Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 130, 3 June 1936, Page 9
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