Construction of liners of giant size create. problems of ike magnitude for only in the operation of these Vessels but in docking and berthing them. The Great Western Railway Company met the challenge of big hips by the construction of the huge graving dock at Southampton which capable of docking the Queen Mary ud any. vessel yet built with quite a margin in band. On the ollier side of the Atlantic, the New, York harbour authorities, envisaging the unusual conditions created by the new phase of giant liners, prepared their plane Jong ago by building a new pier in the Hudson capable of accommodating Europe's maritime leviathans, It is so many years ago that visitors to New York, a city of gigantic proportions, observed the incongruous spectacle of vessels like the Majestic and the Aquitania alongside the piers with at least a third of their length projecting beyond the pier end into the stream. Building operations (o lengthen the piers were started and this incongrulty- was "removed until from the European dockyards came the news of the new regime of ocean giants. This resulted in the building a new pier 1,200 feet long which the Normandie, "on her arrival on June 3 Inst year, was the first occupy. Tt will be at this pier that the Queen Mary, with her length of 1,080 feet, will land her passengers tier her! maiden voyage in May. Incidentally, Shanghai, with its amazing intimate connection with] affairs new and old, has a Tink with the Queen Mary's trip for both Sir Edgar Britten, her commander, and Captain, George Gibbons, "second! captain," have visiled Stanghal on occasions in command of th: Franconia, a well-known—tauris Visitor to this part of the world.
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