The two men devised a plan to build a class of large liners that would be known for their comfort instead of their speed.
"Up to five large liners a day can be berthed in the docks at the same time, all running engines 24/7, said Chris Hinds, vice chair of the Southampton docks watchdog group WDCF.
Private Eye has revealed that George Osborne is urging Cornwall county council to spend £60m (a third from the government) to dredge a deep channel, more than a mile long, out of Falmouth harbour on the pretext that it would be used by large liners, when there is no demand for such a use.
Unfortunately for Voigt and UB-8, they had in fact torpedoed the British ocean liner, which was a participant in an Admiralty plan to disguise large liners as Royal Navy capital ships.
It was built alongside Olympic and Titanic in Belfast in 1911 at Harland & Wolff, designed to tender the Gilded passengers out to the large liners too big to moor alongside the dock in Cherbourg.
Kroonland arrived in Los Angeles Harbor on 3 November amidst fanfare, becoming the largest liner to date to enter that harbor.
For the wear test, the largest ball was paired with the largest liner, giving average radial ball-liner clearances of 132 ± 24 μm for the 28-mm hips and 144 ± 11 μm for the 36-mm hips.
She is the third of its "expedition" ships, which are comparatively nimble vessels that can reach places larger liners cannot.
By David McCord The New Yorker, April 18 , 1953P. 30 Dog is no bar to Europe Travel: Larger Liners Provide Kennels.
The New Yorker, April 18 , 1953P. 30 Dog is no bar to Europe Travel: Larger Liners Provide Kennels.
