GREAT NEW LINER.
THE KING’S INTEREST. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Sept. 15. Construction of the Cunard-White Star Company’s liner No. 552, sister ship to the Queen Mary, will begin iu December and work on the placing in position of keel blocks of fir wood specially chosen to avoid danger of combustion when the ship runs down the slipway is to be begun immediately.
The laying of the keel will probably be completed about March. The Daily Telegraph says that the King has expressed his willingness to lay the first keel plate of the new liner.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 248, 17 September 1936, Page 9
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95GREAT NEW LINER. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 248, 17 September 1936, Page 9
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