MIGHTY OCEAN LINER OUT-LUXURIES ALL OTHER VESSELS.
By Ttlcgraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright “ Times ” Service. LONDON, June 20. The Le Havre correspondent of “ The Times” savs:—“France seems successfully to have out-luxuried everything afloat with the new Compagnie General’s trans-atlantic 43,000-ton liner De France, the largest liner constructed since the “ The designers apparently aimed to make the passengers, when aboard, forget they were on a ship. The features include a chapel accommodating 80 persons, a striking marble reception hall, electric lighting giving the effect of softened sunlight, beautiful statues, marble pillars, Sevres vases and a grand drawing-room entirelv of lacquer. The dining-room, the largest on any steamer, accommodates 700 of the 1658 passengers. The vessel will carry three seaplanes, which* will proceed to shore when the steamer is within a reasonable distance of the coast, shortening the voyage for passengers who are in a hurry. “The vessel shortly makes her maiden voyage to New York, after which she enters the Havre-Plymouth-New York service. Excursionists from all parts of France inspected the vessel.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18187, 21 June 1927, Page 12
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