A LAUNCHING

Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1937, Page 5

A LAUNCHING

OF 24,000 TONNER BRITISH COMPANY'S HOPES. (United Press Asoociation—By Electric Telegraph-—Copy right). (Received this day at 12 neon) LONDON, June 10. The Duchess of Bucclauch in the presence of Lady Stratheden, launched perfectly at Vicker’s Yard, Barrow-in-Furness, the Peninsular’s twenty-four thousand ton, twenty-one knot, eight decker, Stratheren, which will accommodate 446 first-class and 563 tourist passengers in addition to two vice-regal suites. All the first-class cabins are fitted with telephone. Her maiden voyage will be in December. Vickers entertained a large compan at lunch at which "Mr Shaw said th P. and O. associated lines, will within a few weeks, have a hundred thousand tons under construction at. a cost of millions. He hoped the company would soon be able (to place two new ships on the Australian-Canadian route. He could not sav more, but .at least by good chance a berth which is vacated, to-day, will be filled’by a new ship to keep the British flag flying in the Pacific.”