FRENCH SUPER-LINER

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 December 1934, Page 11

FRENCH SUPER-LINER

628 STEWARDS AND 114 COOKS. PARIS, November 6. The giant French liner Normandie will leave the Penhoet dockyard, at St. Nazaire, for Havre on April 7, and begin her maiden voyage to New York in May. The crew will consist of a commander, first and .second captains, six officers holding master mariner tickets, two apprentices, and 10S seamen. This equipment concerns only Ihe navigation and the deck services of the ship. It is supplemented by a chief engineer, sixteen engineer officers with nineteen assistants, thirty electricians, and 130 greasers and stokers.

The Normandie is to cany three doctors and two head nurses, and the head purser will have six assistant pursers on his staff. Other members of the ship’s company will include musicians, , seven printers, nine hairdressers, 628 table stewards, 114 cooks, who are to have seventy-three assistants, ten bakers twenty bell boys, and twenty-five chambermaids. When she sails, the Normapdie •'■ ill

carry sufficient food to constitute quite a respectable amount of cargo in itself. This is to include for the return voyage 70,000 eggs, 7,000 chickens and head of game, sixteen tons of meat, eighty tons of ice, and 24,000 litres of wine. Her wine cellars will contain 2,600 bottles of liqueurs ami 9,500 of mineral waters, and her kitchen equipment will include nearly 59,000 plates and 57,000 glasses.