Word: caronia
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...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...
...sparrowhawk started to chase a carrier pigeon across the Atlantic last week. When 500 miles out they met the Cunarder Caronia, both were contented to alight, to be put in a single cage where they completed their crossing in avian amiability...
Meanwhile the Post Office order was regarded in shipping circles as a thrust at the Cunard Line, which last fortnight (TIME. Jan. 7) began cutting into U. S. Lines, Havana trade by putting the 20,000-ton Caronia on the New York-to-Cuba route. Angry, the U. S. Shipping Board loaned its crack trans-Atlantic steamer, speed, the President Roosevelt, to the (U. S.) Ward Line, thus promised the Caronia the best competition that U. S. boats could give it. This competition got under way last week when the Caronia and the President Roosevelt left New York. Cuba-bound...
Practical. Some U. S. citizens, obedient to prohibition laws at home, enjoy cocktails, wines, on the high seas. British-owned, the Caronia maintains an excellent bar, serves choice wines with meals...