GOTHIC LAUNCHED
SHAW SAVILL FLEET IMPROVED PASSENGER SERVICES Rec. 9 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 26. The third of a group of four passenger and cargo liners, each of 15,000 tons, contracted for by the Shaw Savill Line and now being built at Wallsend-on-Tyne, will be named Gothic. Two Gothics have been associated in past years with Shaw Savill’s United Kingdom-New Zealand service, and it is expected that the new Gothic will be ready for launching late in September or early in October.' The fourth ship, which is being built at Birkenhead, will be called the Ceramic, after the 18,700-ton liner which the enemy sank. The new Ceramic is expected to be ready to join the Corinthic and Athenic. the other two ships of the class; in the first half of 1948. Each of the four ships, which will be used on New Zealand and Australian routes, will carry 85 first-class passengers. The hulls and machinery will be similar but the decorations and furnishing in each will be distinctive. The owners, although concentrating on providing for first class passengers iri these ships, are arranging immediately to increase accommodation in their cabin-class liners, the Matavoa and Tamaroa, to carry 450 passengers each compared with 140 previously.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26550, 27 August 1947, Page 6
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