GREAT MODERN SHIP.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 21029, 13 November 1931, Page 9

GREAT MODERN SHIP.

STRATHNAVER AT SYDNEY. WHARF BUILDINGS DWARFED. (Received November 12, 11.is p.m.) SYDNEY. Nov. 12. Hie huge P. and 0. liner Strathnaver berthed at Sydney to-day on the completion of her maiden voyage from England. Her sheer white sides glistened in the sunshine and her towering upper decks and her great bulk dwarfed the surrounding wharf buildings. The evening newspapers publish striking pictures of the majestic liner approaching her berth in the vicinity of the colossal harbour bridge which figures prominently in the background. Viscount Glenapp, joint deputy-chair-man of the P. and 0. Company, is among the passengers. He said his company had given Australia an object lesson as to the ability and willingness of British shipowners to serve the Commonwealth with modern ships. He emphasised the unique opportunity about to open for the commercial consolidation of the. Empire. All that required to be done, said Lord Glenapp, was for Britain and the Dominions to reach a common understanding. But an Empire partnership could not he one-sided. He said he. was amazed at. the way Sydney had grown since lie visited Australia in 1910.

The Strathnaver. which was launched from V jokers-Arinst rotigs' shipyard ai Barrow on February 5 lasf, is (he earlier of two cargo liners ordered for the P. and O. Company's passenger and cargo service between London and Australia. She is a vessel of 22,500 tons, is 664 ft. long and has accommodation for 493 first-class passengers, 668 tourist class and 476 officers, engineers and crew. She has a white hull and three vellow-coloured funnels in place of the usual black hull and funnels, and is fitted with engines of turbo-electric type to develop 28,000 shaft horse-power.