GERMANY: Longest Sisters

Two sister ships, the longest in the world (938 feet), were launched, last week, from German yards, and will go into service late next spring for the North German Lloyd. The sisters are Europa and Bremen. Though slim and expected to challenge the trans-Atlantic speed record held by the Cunarder Mauretania, the Teuton sisters will be no lightweights (46,500 tons each). Thus they will be but little lighter than the two heaviest liners in the world: Leviathan and Majestic, which were originally Hamburg-American sister ships, but were snatched from Germany by the Allies, and are now U. S. (Leviathan) and...

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