NEW GERMAN LINER
A NUMBER OF NOVELTIES. STREET OF SHOPS INCLUDED. (United Press Association.» (Bs Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) BERLIN, April 28.Novelties in the new North German Lloyd liner Europa, a sister ship to the Bremen, include a street of shops and a catapulting feaplane to land mails 24 hours ahead of the ship. The Europa will carry 1100 passengers, first and second class, and 2000 tourist and third class passengers. Her maximum speed is 26 knots. There are 28 unsinkahle motor-driven lifeboats, which swing out from the davits simultaneously by electric control. The liner is double bottomed, and has 15 watertight compartments, which are believed to make her unsinkahle. Hundreds of passages are already booked for her maiden trip on September 16.—Australian Press Association.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20704, 30 April 1929, Page 11
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