FOUR NEW VESSELS
LAUNCHINGS IN GREAT BRITAIN. BIG LINER FOR AFRICAN TRADE. British Official Wireless. Rec. 5.5 p.m. Rugby, Aug. 15. To-day has seen the launch of new vessels, both mercantile and naval, from shipyards in England, Scotland and Ireland. At Belfast the 25,000 tons Union Castle liner Stirling Castle was launched at Messrs. Harland and. Wolff’s yard. The vessel, which is intended for the South Africa service, is 720 feet long and 83 feet wide. She is 5000 tons larger than the biggest existing ship in the company’s fleet. She is a motor vessel of smart appearance with one low, Streamlined funnel, curved rounded stem and cruiser stem. There will be accommodation for 300 first-class and 500 cabin class passengers. Two destroyers of the Admiralty’s 1933 programme, named the Greyhound and the Griffen, were launched at VickersArmstrong’s works at Barrow-on-Clyde. 2 The flotilla leader, H.M.S. Granville, embodying a new development in boiler equipment, was launched from the Scotstoun yard of Messrs. Yarrow.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1935, Page 6
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