ANOTHER BLUE STAR SHIP
THE BRISBANE STAR LAST WORD IN REFRIGERATION [British Official Wireless] Received Sept. 18, 5.5 p.m. RUGBY, Sept. 17. The refrigerated motor-ship, Bris j bane Star, of 12,000 tons, and built for the Blue Star Line, has been launched at Birkenhead. The vessel is 522 feet long and has a 72-feet beam. In the past ten years the Blue Star bine has built 19 steamers at a cost of over seven millions sterling. The chairman of the company said that the Brisbane Star represented I the last word in refrigerator equip, ment. He added that he could see « definite sign of recovery for the shln;ping industry.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 222, 19 September 1936, Page 15
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