Word: caronia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kind. Britain's 34,000-ton Caronia, biggest passenger liner built since the war, completed her last trial run before her maiden trip to New York next week. Honor guest was the Duke of Edinburgh, who cracked: "I'm sorry my wife can't be with me; as you know, we've had another launching in the meantime...
...last week at the rain-drenched, mist-shrouded shipyard of John Brown & Co. There they cheered as Princess Elizabeth, in a new green coat and beret-like hat, with young Philip Mountbatten at her side, swung a bottle against the towering bow of the new Cunard White Star liner Caronia. Down the ways slid the 34,000-tonner, the biggest passenger ship launched anywhere since the war. The hull was towed to a dockyard basin, where it will need another ten months of outfitting before it is ready for service...
...million Caronia will have the new Cunard look: single funnel, single mast, sharp clipper bow and a cruiser stern. The Caronia will carry only two classes on its nine decks, on winter cruises and the dollar-rich transatlantic trade. Britain has to get more of her share of that...