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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Invitations went out last week to attend the keel-laying ceremonies of U. S. Line's new 30,000-ton passenger ship, as yet unnamed, to be launched from Way O of New York Shipbuilding Co.'s Camden, N. J. yard this week. It was on Way O that the aircraft carrier Saratoga was built. The U. S. Line's new liner will be 705 ft. long, have a beam of 86 ft., a speed of 20 knots. It will be the largest merchantman ever built...
...anchor in the South Pacific lay the little Australian destroyer Torrens last week. Three-quarters of a mile away Australia's two capital ships, the 10,000-ton cruisers Australia and Canberra, steamed in line of battle, decks cleared for action. Gunnery officers and navigators worked their range finders and slide rules, scribbled calculations. The eight eight-inch guns of the Australia fired a deafening broadside, the Canberra followed with her main battery. Fountains of white spray rose round the little target-ship, but when the smoke cleared, the Torrens still rode at anchor. Australia's navy tried...
While some explorers were just back with tales of their summer adventuring, others last week were planning or embarking on new expeditions. Some tales and plans: Antarctic Cruise. Five months ago, owners of the Stella Polaris, a sturdy 6,000-ton steamer, announced in London that Lieut.-Commander J. R. Stenhouse would take a group of tourists to Antarctica. Last fortnight, a pleasant-faced woman engaged passage for the cruise. She was Emily Dorman Lady Shackleton, the lady whom the late gallant Sir Ernest Shackleton left behind him for the third and last time, when he embarked on the Antarctic...
...University of Bingen, Germany. In 1902 he returned to the U. S., started work in Mesta's designing room. Mesta, located in West Homestead, Pa., is a leader in making the big equipment used by steel mills, employs 2,000 men. A notable product was a 14,000-ton press for the U. S. armor plant in South Charleston. A pressure of 14,000 tons is equivalent to the weight of 70 freight locomotives. Other notable products are the tremendous machine tools Mesta makes for its own use. Mesta's net sales last year were over...
...10?Embarkation of first tourist trip ($2,500 & up) to the Antarctic; from London. Tour: to Bay of Whales via Galapagos, Auckland & Tahiti, on a 6,000-ton yacht, with sightseeing inland by airplane...