The Archive · 1938

Launching of Queen Elizabeth

Clyde Trust To Dredge the Channel to Sea London, June 11.

The Clyde Trust is already taking steps. to prepare for the journey to the sea of the sister ship to the Cunard-White Star liner Queen Mary, by arranging for the dredging of the channel.

The Queen Elizabeth will not be launched until September 27, and it will take another year to fit her out before she will embark on her first trip out to sea—Wireless through Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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