OVER 1300 PASSENGERS
SECOND VOYAGE OF THE QUEEN MARY (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, 18th June. Thq liner Queen Mary, which sailed from Southampton yesterday on her second voyage to New York is carrying .1,357 passengers, of whom 200 joined the vessel at Cherbourg, which was cleared at 5.15 p.m. A SISTER SHIP PRELIMINARY TENDERS OBTAINED RUGBY, 18th June. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Neville Chamberlain, announced in the House of Commons that he had agreed in principle to the application which he received from the CunardWhite Star Company for the use of a sum available under the North Atlantic Act for the construction of a sister ship to the Queen Mary. He had reserved the right to further consultation before the contract was signed. Meantime the company had obtained preliminary tenders from the various shipbuilding firms, but he understood that after considering these they would negotiate in the first instance with Messrs John Brown, builders of the Queen Mary. The place of building must be for the company to decide on the technical and commercial merits of the case.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 20 June 1936, Page 7
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