WORLD’S BIG LINERS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 147, 24 June 1930, Page 5

WORLD’S BIG LINERS

COST OF INSURANCE MANY MILLIONS INVOLVED LONDON, June 12. The Orient liner Orontes is among the 16 liners in the world which are insured for more than £1,000,000, says the shipping correspondent of the Times. The White Star Company's Britannic which will be insured for £1,200,000 will add the 17th when it joins the trans-Atlantic service next month. The highest-valued liners at present arc the Bremen and Europa, insured for £1,900,000 each. The Leviathan is insured for £1,640,000. The highest-insured British ships are the Cunard liner s Aquitaniya, Berengaria and Alauretania, at £1,500,000 leach. The Afajestic, the world’s largest vessel, is insured for £1,300,000, and the He de France at £1,200,000. Those insured for £2,000,000 consist of the Canadian Pacific Company’s Empress of Canada, the French liner Paris, the Italian liners Vulcanin, Sirturnia, the Augustus, and the Americans California and Virginia. Numerous large liners are valued for insurance at rather less than £1.000,000.