THE CHANNEL CROSSING
NEW LUXURY BOAT. Hundreds of distinguished French visitors left Calais recently for Dover on the inaugural trip of the magnificent new French boat for the CalaisDover service, the Cote d'Azur. Before they left there was a short bon voyage ceremony aboard in Calais harbour. Gay bunting was flying in the wind and a crowd cheering as the vessel made for Dover, where an-
other great welcome awaited. Every ship dipped her flag.
At Dover the French guests were entertained by the Southern Railway. General Sir Edward Baring, the chairman of the Southern Railway, said they would soon be running all their services with nothing but the latest and most modern vessels of the type. The cross Channel services would be of an efficiency never before thought of.
"They will," said Sir Edward, "compensate for the absence of a Channel tunnel."
Within an hour and a half the Cote d'Azur was on her first homeward run back to France. She went into commission at once. She is a luxury boat, with exquisite private cabins and glass windowed decks, and her decorations, shaded lights and panels of precious woods in her dining and other saloons place her in the forefront of the cross-Channel boats. She is oil feed and her turbines can give her a speed of 231 knots.
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Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3314, 25 June 1931, Page 2
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