LINER QUEEN MARY
RECENT ATLANTIC TRIPS - ~ i t_ CONGRATULATION FROM KING British Wireless RUGBY, Sept. 2 "Telegrams of congratulation from King Edward to the chairman of the Cunard-White Star Line on the recent record jcrossings of the Atlantic by the liner Queen Mary were read to-day to the Chip's company when they mustered before the vessel's departure from Southampton to New York.
The first of the telegrams was despatched "after the liner had made the westward journey in record time, and the second, which was sent after the arrival of the Queen Mary in British waters, offered hearty congratulations on the completion of the record.
UNION CASTLE LINE NEW-VESSEL'S PERFORMANCE RECORD ANTICIPATED LONDON, Sept. 2 A cablegram from Capetown states that there is no doubt the Union Castle Line's new vessel Stirling Castle will break the record to the Cape, after only 12 days' sailing, and that she is the fastest ship in the Cape trade. The company, at a nfeeting in London to-day, made financial arrangements for the building of a new mail vessel of the Stirling Castle type, and for putting new engines in five other Castle liners.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22515, 4 September 1936, Page 12
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