VOYAGE TO THE SEA
PLANS FOR LINER QUEEN MARY. IMPROVEMENT OF CHANNEL. British Wireless. Rugby, Aug. 30. Although the liner Queen Mary is hot due to leave John Brown’s fitting basin at Clydebank for ahbthef fiine months, the Clyde authorities have already alrribst completed the preliminary plans for her voyage out to sea. As the chan-: nel between the basin and the “tail of the bank” is narrow and Winding, it may be found best to use two tides and halt the ship for 10 hours at Old Kirkpatrick. Awkward corners in the deep water channel are being dealt With and in one place an outcrop of rock has to be blasted away. ’. ibi i l tiaii:t.u.J.li> L »MiiwißWTiri’-rrri-irnT*-iTr -7* —■—
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1935, Page 2
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