SOUTH AMERICAN TRADE
BIG MOTOR VESSELS CONSTRUCTED. British Official Wireless. Rugby, Oct. 6. The new Nelson liner "Highland Monarch,” 14,000 tons, the first of five motor ships ordered by the company for their South American service, has completed her voyage from the shipbuilding yards of Harland and Wolff at Belfast, where she was built, to London. She will sail on October 18 on her first trip to Buenos Aires, which she is intended to make in about 19 days. The Highland Monarch is 520 feet in length and 69 feet beam and has accommodation for 135 first-class passengers, 60 intermediate, and 600 ‘ emigrants. The vessel has one of the largest refrigerating installations afloat.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 October 1928, Page 9
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