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Show SPEEDY U. S. LINERS ENTER PACIFIC TRADE BALTIMORE. Md.. Feb. 15. Tho sailing within an hour of each other from neighboring piers her- tenia) of the Golden Stat and Hawkey c State marks the entry Into active BtrvfCej of the first two of the longer and speedier speed-ier type of passenger and cargo liners being built for th0 shipping board These two liners are representative of the 635-foot class of which sixteen are being constructed In Atlantic coast shipyards, with the seven llne.-s of tho 522-foot class built for th,. shipping: hoard by the New York Shipbuilding corporation, they form the only passenger pas-senger liners In the immense shipping board fleet. The Golden State, which was built i at Newport News, has been allocated to Pacific Mall Steamsnlp company for Its trans-Pacific service and tho Hawkeye State, built locally at tho Sparrow's Point yard, to the Mattson lino for Its service to Honolulu. Roth liners hove accommodations for '251 first cabin passengers and 300 steerage; steer-age; they are of 21,167 tons displacement displace-ment and are twin screw, oil burning, turbine driven vessels with a designed sea speed of lT4j knots. |