BRITAIN’S NEW SHIP
LINER AND DESTROYERS [BY CABLE —PRESO ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.) * RUGBY, August 15. To-day has seen the launch of new vessels, mercantile and naval, from shipyards in England, Scotland, and Ireland. At Belfast, the 25.000 tons Union Castle liner. Stirling Castle, was launched at Harland and Wolff’s yard. The vessel is intended for the South Africa service, and is 720 feet long. S 3 feet wide, and 5,000 tons larger than the biggest existing ship in the Company's fleet. She is a motor vessel of smart appearance with one low streamlined funnel, curved rounded stem, and a cruiser stern. There will be accommodation for 300 first class, and 500 cabin class passengers. Two destroyers of the Admiralty's 1933 programme, named the Greyhound and the Griffen, were launched at Vickers Armstrong's works at Bar-row-on-Clyde, The flotilla leader, Granville, embodying new development in boiler equipment, was launched from the Scotstoun yard of Messrs. Yarrow.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 August 1935, Page 7
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