The Messageries Maritimes have commissioned their new motor-liner, the Georges-Philippar, which was launched at St, 2 ber, 1980, for their service and Japan," This is the fifth motor Tiner that the company has launched, the others being the Theophile-Gautier, placed on the Mediterranean service in January, 1927; the Eridan on the Australian service in Novem her, 1929; the Jean-Laborde, on the Indian Ocean line; and the Felix Roussel, on the China and Japan in February, 1931. The Bare. chal-Joffre, destined for the Indian Ocean, and the Aramis, for Chinay
end of the year. The geries will both be in serve before the 'Maritimes will' thus have before long seven motor liners in use.
Philippar will be Marseilles, Zhe home port of the Georges-
The principal features of the vessel are as follow:—length 172,71 metres, beam 20.80 metres, depth 14.30 metres, average draught when fully loaded '8.50. metres, corresponding displacement 20,045. tons maximum stock of mazout 1,04 tons, net volume of holds and storage for merchandise and postal bags 12,822 cubic metres and' total burden 10,200 tons.
'The boat's speed in trials was 174 knots. It can carry" 1,077 passengers, namely, 8 in the de luxe cabins, 185 in the fist, 182 in the Second, 102 in the third class and 650 in' the steerage, It is equipped, with two Diesel-Sulzer engines of 7,000 bp. each, othe cxornal appearance of the Georges-Philippar is very different from that of the other boats of the company's fleet. 'The funnels are rectangular and are painted white fs is the superstructure, the Way' and load-line along bei green, which is the" the ship, The' interior decorated in the style ofan old French Renaissance house and this scheme has also been carried out on the exterior, all the superstructures being decorated to represent the facade of Renaissance chateau,
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