Word: sistership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain could console herself that no nation could dispute her No. 2 rank in the North Atlantic. Air France, which also has a treaty right to land transatlantic mail and passengers in the U. S., is still in the survey stage. When Imperial shakes down, the Caribou and her sistership Cabot will carry mail, no passengers, each week between the U. S. and Britain. Pan American once carried 27 passengers, 791 lb. of mail to Europe...
Built in 1911, her 46,439-ton hull was the biggest, most sumptuous ever launched in Great Britain. Year later she had a momentary rival in her sistership, the Titanic, but not until the Queen Mary slid down the ways in 1934 did British shipbuilders actually surpass the Olympic in tonnage...
...under construction again with money provided by the British Government. The 400 men are just a beginning. Soon 3,800 workmen will be employed and other jobs for other thousands are still to come. Money has been definitely promised, too, for the construction of a sistership so that the merged Cunard-White Star can offer a regular weekly service from both New York and Southampton with its giants...
Into the pilot's cockpit of the Westland's sistership went Flight Lieutenant D. F. Mclntyre, brother officer of Lord Clydesdale in the City of Glasgow's auxiliary air squadron. His observer was S. R. Bonnett, chief cinematographer of the expedition...
...displacement: 2,730 tons. The V6, sistership, shares the honor. Next largest: the U. S. S. V4, minelaying submarine. Displacement: 2,680 tons...