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Wednesday evening the twin-screw turbo-electric liner Morro Castle, 11,500 tons, lay at her Ward Line pier in Havana. In her hold was a cargo of 750 tons of perishable fruit. She was manned by a crew of 240. And up her gangway, in little groups chattering about their Cuban purchases, trooped 318 passengers. Most of them were U. S. vacationists on a week's southern cruise and few of them were distinguished persons. The Morro Castle was warped into the roadstead, stood out of the harbor, bound for New York, three days away...
...Paris the Bank of France again increased its phenomenally huge gold holdings last week and the French Line was able definitely to announce that France will complete the super-Ile de France, a ship larger and faster than any now afloat and the first transatlantic liner with "American type" turbo-electric drive. With a new State subsidy behind this French prosperity project, some 4,000 Frenchmen were riveting like so many steelpeckers all over the great hull last week, expected to launch her in October 1932, complete her for service...
...Luxurious New York-Panama Pacific Coast sailings headed by the turbo-electric marvels, S. S. Pennsylvania, S. S. Virginia and S. S. California (I. M. M.), to be supplemented with the Dollar freight service...
...also faster, than any ever built before. . . . She will be more than 1,000 feet long, nearer in fact to 1,100 feet. . . .* In her motive power she will follow a comparatively new line, first laid down by the United States Navy and later followed by the French-namely, turbo-electric drive. "Steam from her 30 boilers will drive turbines directly coupled to electric generators. Electric motors supplied with current from the generators will drive her four propeller shafts. . . . Similar equipment is used on the French Navy's flotilla leader Verdun, the first warship ever to attain a speed...
...fleet of 46 steamers. At present I. M. M. is the U. S. agent of its once greatest unit, White Star. While it no longer owns the White Star's big three, it still has many an interesting ship. Of these, especially famed are: 1) Pennsylvania, California, and Virginia, turbo-electrics operated by Panama Pacific Line, the largest U. S.-built ships of their type; 2) Minnetonka and Minnewaska of Atlantic Transport Lines; 3) Belgenland, largest in the Red Star Service. Another important I. M. M. unit is the Frederick Leyland Line, sailing between European, Central and North American...