WORLD’S BIG LINERS

Hawera Star, Volume L, 26 June 1930, Page 8

WORLD’S BIG LINERS

COST OF INSURANCE.

MANY millions involved

lUnileii Vrc.tß Association—By Electric Telegraph

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LONDON, June 12.

The Orient liner Omnten is among tho 16 liners in tlvc world which two m--2ei for more than £1,000,000, tlio shipping. correspondent or me Tl The White Star Company’s Britaniiio, which will he insured tar £1,200,0 10 will add the 17th when it joins the trails-Atlantic service next muntili. The highest-valued liners, at present are the Bremen a ml Euroipa, irusured for £1.900.000 each, The leviathan m insured let- £1.040,000. The highest-insured British ships ate the Canard liners Aquitanrir Berwjrraiia and Mauretania. at- £1 ,oOO.OOU each The Majestic, the world s largest the lie tie France at £l.2(H),()<]u. These insured for £1,000,000 eonstst of the. Canadian Pacific Company s Empress of Canada, the French Inter 1 aus. She Italian liners Vnlcania.. Satnrma and Augustus., and the Americans California and Virginia. Numerous lanA lj U e.rs are valued for insurance, at lathe,l less than £1,000.000.