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DOMINION TRADE
BUILDING AT WALLSEND
(Received December 20, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, December 20.
Messrs. Swan, Hunter, and "Wighar* Richardson, Ltd., are building at Wallsend to the order of the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Co. Ltd. their "largest vessel since the Mauretania—the Dominion Monarch.
She will be of 27,000 tons gross, 16,000 tons deadweight, and will have a length of 682 ft and a breadth-of 84Jft. The Dominion Monarch will be equipped with cold storage and will have accommodation for 525 one-class passengers. She will have four screws. The new vessel'will be launched in June, and will make her maiden voyage in February, 1939.
She will establish a new. passenger route to New Zealand, calling at Madeira, Teneriffe, South Africa, Fremantle, Melbourne and Sydney, reaching New Zealand in thirty-five days. Her speed will be 19£ knots per hour or over.
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Evening Post, Volume cxxiv, Issue 148, 20 December 1937, Page 12
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