New container ships for Irish Sea route
31st January 1969, Page 25
31st January 1969
Page 25
Page 25, 31st January 1969
— New container ships for Irish Sea route
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TWO new cellular container ships have been ordered by British Railways from the Verolme Cork Dockyard Ltd., Cobh, the first of which is 'clue to enter service in the summer of 1970.
For use on a daily service between Holyhead and Belfast and Dublin, the new ships will each carry the equivalent of 180 20ft ISO boxes. The vessels will each be of 3,800 tons gross and will together cost approximately £2m.