SHIPPING DEALS

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 May 1936, Page 5

SHIPPING DEALS

CANADIAN VESSELS BOMHT [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Recd. May 1, 8 a.m.) LONDON, April 30. The Balranald, Baradine, Barrabool and Bendigo have been sold to ship breakers for £26,000. A syndicate comprising the Commonwealth Dominion line, New Zealand Shipping Company and EllermanBueknall, has purchased for £160,000 the remaining vessels of the Canadian Government merchant marine. The ships will maintain the Halifax-Aus-tralia service. “QUEEN MARY.” [BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.] RUGBY, April 29. The Chairman of the Cunard Steamship Company, addressing the shareholders, expressed the opinion that the "liner Queen Mary would prove a profitable ship in operation. “We know already from her trials that she constitutes an important advance in the economics of marine engineering.” Reviewing the prospects of the Atlantic trade, he declared that the companies had taken the right and proper course in placing the order for the Queen Mary when the} 7 did. STRATHNAVER’S MISHAP. (Recd. Mav 1. 1 p.m.) LONDON, April 30. The liner Strathnaver, on arrival, at Plymouth, collided with the tender Sir Francis Drake, while the latter was taking off 150 of the 1100 passengers. The tender was extensively damaged, bnt proceeded to the shore. EX-GERMAN WARSHIPS. LONDON, April 30. The "Daily Telegraph” says that the old German Navy is helping to build' the new British Navy and merchant. ships. The works at Sheffield and in Scotland are making steel plates from scrap from the scuttled warships salvaged at Scapa Flow. It is stated that similar plates are embodied in the Queen Mary. Brass is a 1 sd-being utilised.