Three thousand British shipwrights, fitters, engineers and electricians laid by their tools and materials last week and sadly filed out of the shipyard of John Brown & Co., Ltd. Behind them they left the largest ship's hull that man has ever riveted together Britannia's unfinished bid to rule the Atlantic mercantile wave again. As a handful of watchmen took up their duties under the deserted hulk, deepest gloom settled over Clydebank. Less than 30% of all Clyde shipworkers remained at work.
In announcing to Cunard shareholders the cessation of operations on "No....
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