LINER QUEEN MARY
SATISFACTORY PROGRESS.
FIRST SAILING IN MAY.
(British Official Wireless.)
(Rec. 5.5 p.m.) Rugby, November 1. The announcement of May 27 next as the first sailing date of the new liner Queen Mary, indicates that satisfactory progress is being made in putting out the ship. Some 4000 skilled workmen are busy on board apart from many thousands engaged throughout the country manufacturing equipment. Two large swimming pools and an enclosed promenade deck 1250 feet long are ready for completion. The 25 public rooms will be unusually large. The first class dining room will hold 900 passengers and the roof is 30 feet high. Elaborate radio telephonic arrangements are included in the equipment. Microphone telephones will be fitted to the first class cabins to enable the passengers to put through radio telephone calls to any part of the world. A world’s record for launching a lifeboat was established in a recent test of one of the Queen Mary’s lifeboats which was lowered from the davits and down to the water in 611 seconds.
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Southland Times, Issue 22729, 4 November 1935, Page 6
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