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EUROPA LAUNCHED. GERMANY’S LARGEST SHIP. ■ LONDON, August 16. Norddeutscher Lloyd’s 46,000-ton liner Europa was launched! at Hamburg to-day. She is Germany’s largest sh%> since the war. A sister ship, the Bremen, will be launched today. Both are for the traiis-Atlantloj service., , The. ships are veritable floating palaces. They will dvrry 3200 passengers, add cost nearly £3,000,000 each. Their speed is expected to *ie , 06i knots, and they will therefore be the’ fastest liners afloat. If Germany recaptures the blue) ribbon of the Atlantic from the Mauretainia she is'unlikely to hold it for long. as. the White Star Company’s 66,000-ton .liner now being built at '/ as well a,s a projected Cnuarder, are expected) t 0 be rivals of the Europa aad the (Bremen.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 19, 17 August 1928, Page 5
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