Show ig Liner Embarks t i On Oll Maiden Ma iden Voyage I Cheer Queen Mary as as' She Sails From Southampton for New Nv N v YOl York k t j I SOUTHAMPTON Eng May 27 AP AP TheS The S. S S. S Queen Mary reat at Britain's mightiest liner sailed at p. p m. m a. a m. m M. M S. S today for New York On board the great vessel were 2139 pas- pas igers gers She pointed her bow toward the I channel amidst scenes of of enthusiasm that transformed ampton's harbor Into a vivid- vivid i f exciting welter of oC sound and clot olor lor Moro More than spectators docks and the roofs of and overflowed to vantage data along the Solent Thousands tugs and excursions t t swarmed like so many chips a a pond about the giant vessel essel tW Whether ether the tho ton pride oCA of oC u. 1 A shipbuilders would beat the H t i P Picture on Page Fage 2 I r r liner Normandie's time tOEz reas the Atlantic was the out- out ding topic of ot conversation To do so the Queen Mary must ulle at an n average speed d of betE bet- bet E r t nn an n knots knots' On trial runs e n Queen Mary reached a top P ed of 32 81 knots The latest colossus I of the sea was I to race to New York In I fy 10 little more than four tour days e c arriving there Sunda Sunday n Investment of more than 25 z- z I W was involved in the com corn ted Queen Mary towering ove ove the water with her 12 decks deck high 6 0 vessel Ls Is slightly smaller in tonnage than the Normandie r P tons being tonnage compared to of nearly for tor the e 0 length h ot of f th the he Queen Mary 1018 feet compared to 1029 for Normandie The British vessel a beam lam of f feet to the t of f her French rival The dis- dis ce from Irom the Queen Marys Mary's keel top superstructure is feet |