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MOST LAVISH ACCOMODATION AFLOAT. LONDON INSURANCE COMPANIES’ HEAVY LOSS. 'U P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright.) LONDON, Nov. 20. It is estimated that London marine insurance companies lose £600.000 on the liner Bermuda, in addition to £450,000 through the fire in the West Indies in June. The Daily Express says that incendiarism is believed to have caused the destruction of the Bermuda, which had the moijt lavish and extravagant accommodation of any ship afloat. The ship was built for the traffic of American millionaires between New York and the "West Indies in order to escape prohibition.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11494, 23 November 1931, Page 5
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