REPLACEMENT PROGRAMME COMPLETED
BY PASSENGER LINER COMPANY [British Official Wireless! RUGBY, 17th August One of the largest replacement programmes ever undertaken by a passenger liner company, apart from the rebuilding of the merchant fleet after j the Great War, has been completed by ! the Union Castle Company with the ! sale of the Dunluce Castle to the break- | ers. Within the last four years ships | equivalent to about 73,000 tons gross ! have been sold for breaking up, and ! during the same period 189,000 tons j have been built .
The management has adopted a policy of ordering vessels in pairs. The delivery in 1935 of two refrigerated motor-vessels was followed in 1936 by the commissioning of the mail liners Sterling Castle and Athlone Castle, of 25,000 tons, and in 1938 the Capetown Castle, of 27,000 tons, was delivered. These three ships have reduced the time for the Southampton-Cape Town run by three days to 13£ days, and this shortening of the time has necessitated the equipment of five existing vessels of about 20.000 tons gross each with new machinery. Since 1937 four more refrigerated motor-vessels for the transport of fruit have also been delivered.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 19 August 1939, Page 5
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