NEW ATLANTIC LINER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20105, 16 November 1928, Page 16

NEW ATLANTIC LINER.

THE DUCHESS OF YORK. LAUNCHING AT GLASGOW. LUXURIOUS APPOINTMENTS. [from our own correspondent. ] LONDON, Oct,. 5. The Duchess of York was present at the Clydebank launching of the Canadian Pacific oil-burning liner bearing her name and she performed tho christening ceremony. The Duchess, accompanied by the Duke of York, walked round the keel of the giant 20,000-ton liner, inspecting it closely and asking numerous questions. Tho vessel, built by John Brown and Company, is the fourth of its class. It is intended for tho Atlantic run and the St. Lawrence River route to Montreal.

In the tourist class there is accommodation for 480 passengers and in the third-class for 508. There is also provision for 573 cabin passengers. Throughout the appointments are luxurious, from the dining saloon with its old-world minstrels' gallery to a nursery with a dolls' house for the children.

"I believe this is the first occasion that a member of my family has launched a vessel of the mercantile marine under the auspices of one of tho great overseas Dominions," said the Duke. The fame of Urown and Company, the Duke said, was world-wide. They had built H.M.S. Hood, winch was the flagship of the special service squadron which toured the Empire and was known to many thousands of their kinsmen across the sea.

Sir George McLaren Brown, the' European general manager of the Canadian Pacific Railways, read a cablegram from Mr. 11. W. Beatty, president of the company, stating that the new ship furnished further evidence of the supremacy of the British shipyard in workmanship and efficiency.

Lord Aberconway, chairman of John Brown and Company, said the predecessors of the new ship were more than fulfilling contract conditions regarding fuel consumption and speed. The. performance of the previous two vessels in (he same class in fuel consumption constituted an absolute record. As regards speed, the Duchess of York would be able to take a place with the 19-knot express steamers of the Canadian Pacific Railways.