NEW TASMAN LINER
LAUNCHING IN ENGLAND SHIPYARD CEREMONY TO-DAY The Union Steam Ship Company's new 15,000-ton liner Awatea is to ba launched at the shipyards of \ ickers, Armstrongs, Limited, Barrow-in-Furness, England, to-day. The vessel, which is being built for the intercolonial trade, is expected to be ready to leave England about the end of August. The christening ceremony is to be performed by Lady Bledisloe, and Lord Bledisloe will give an address which will he broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation. The ceremony be rebroadcast in New Zealand by tho national stations at 7.15 p.m. to-nior-row. . The Awatea, which will have a spec of 23 knots, will incorporate the most modern improvements in design an passenger accommodation,' and nill , able to maintain two and a-half ay passages between Sydney and New ®". • land. She will enter'"the intercolonial trade in October.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22352, 25 February 1936, Page 8
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