LUXURY MOTOR LINER.

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 32, 30 April 1927, Page 7

LUXURY MOTOR LINER.

BRITAIN’S NEW VESSEL. THE PALATIAL ALCANTARA. ft* Alcantara, the largest and latest *otor vessel in the British mercantile tfine, provides accommodation on a scale for 1900 passengers and ::w , divided into first, second and third -sses. it would be impossible to in detail of the spaciousness of t principal apartments or the choice % of their different schemes of oration. The dining saloon, for in•"fe. 94ft long, two decks high, and etching the entire width of the ship, '• i signified scheme in old ivory, after , e w °rk of Sir Christopher Wren at S! ppton Court Palace. The social which is also two decks high, is veiled after the model of the Chapter “Se at Toledo, and even the furniture .J 1 Ueen designed after antique Span!."?!PP,es in mahogany. r me reading and writing-room the -pers have gone to the well-known . of Robert Adam at Harewood while the smoke-room, in the and Mary period, is panelled in jr wood, after the rooms in Belton Lincolnshire, and a fireplace m the blue drawing-room at Ham r se » with Grinling Gibbons carving Copies of pictures by Reynolds ' "Dnsborough are also included ih Th„ °T decoration. .“ Cre 1S a first-class winter garden, j'‘ , b . v la nps modelled on the flagid in the Royal Armoury at ;0. ih erc j s a sw imming pool, and iaren’s playroom designed to de- %; story of Aladdin and his lamp. J-.] er ac 9 omroo dation ranges from :;r4f S F a bins-de •jxe to excellent acjG'ee‘^cantara is not the first of its f na y be gathered from an oak foil . I rti hearing a small Key and • i PtaivS? Wll ?< inscription: “Key of the ’‘’Sent'* Ca^ln °T H.M.S. Alcantara, the *' Predecessor, employed 7 e( t cruiser during the Great at^ ach ed to the 10th Cruiser r . e p’ "Hich vessel shared the fate ! "e COil V re on February 29. 1916, off Uev • C or "ay alter a fierce fight. “J? i* 16 only relic of the famous :: hv u W » as Presented to the com""If S e c a A- Admira l Thomas Erskine -fc] jJi** w ho commanded the s <3rtk action.” The vessel has ' h U. and is of over 22,500 gross