LINER DE LUXE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16372, 21 June 1927, Page 5

LINER DE LUXE

LARGEST SINCE THE WAR AMAZING FEATURE (The Times.) LONDON, June 20. The Times' Le Havre correspondent says that France seems successfully to have out-luxuried everything afloat with the new Compagnie Generale trans-Atlantic. 43,000-ton liner Ho do Franco, the largest liner constructed since the war. Her designers apparently aimed to make the passengers, when aboard, forget they were on a ship. Features include a chapel accommodating 800 persons, a striking marble reception hall, electric lighting giving the effect - of softened sunlight, beautiful statues, marble pillars, Sevres vases, a grand cirawing-room entirely of laquer, a drawing-room entirely of lacquer, a steamer. It will accommodate 700 of the 1658 passengers. The vessel will carry three seaplanes, which will proceed to shore when the steamer is within reasonable distance of the coast, shortening the voyage for passengers in a hurry. The vessel" shortly makes her maiden voyage to New York, after which she' enters the Havre-Plymouth-New York service. Excursionists from all parts of France inspected the vessel.

GERMAN COMPETITORS (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.l BERLIN, June 19. Germany has placed orders for two 46,000-ton passenger steamers with which she intends to try to recapture the blue ribbon of/the Atlantia services.