WIRELESS LAUNCHING
DUKE’S ACT IN AUSTRALIA VESSEL IN ENGLISH YARD EVENT UNIQUE IN EMPIRE NEW BRITISH MEAT SHIP British Official Wireless. Rec. 5 p.m. Rugby, Nov. 9. The Duke of Gloucester, while attending a concert at Brisbane on December 7, will launch the new Orient liner Orion, which is being built at Barrow-in-Fumess, by pressing a button. The electrical impulse will be sent by land line to Sydney and thence by radio and telephone trunk lines to Barrow, where it will close a power circuit and release the ship, which will immediately glide into the water. The Orion will be the first ship of the British mercantile marine to be launched by wireless telephone. The new liner will be approximately 24,000 tons gross. She contains gas-tight chambers for the transport of chilled meat from Australia.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 November 1934, Page 5
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