LINERS AS HOTELS
TO BE MOORED IN HOTELS. DURING CORONATION WEEK. (From a Special Correspondent.) (By Air Mail.) London, January 23. Nearly 50,000 people will stay in “floating hotels” on the Thames during the Coronation week. About 100 launches, tugs, tenders and rowing boats will take them to and from the shore. Thirty great liners of from 17,000 to 22,000 tons will be anchored to special buoys in midstream stretching from Gravesend up to Greenwich Buoys. Many of them will be crack foreign liners from all parts of the world. There will be hundreds of small private yachts and motorboats, warships, and scores of smaller liners nearer to London. One liner which is coming from the Far East will bring an Arab potentate with his harem. His wives will have a part of one deck specially roped off for them.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4955, 13 February 1937, Page 7
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140LINERS AS HOTELS King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4955, 13 February 1937, Page 7
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