Speeding After Dollars - Caronia Maiden Trip -- Steaming tugs escort the Caronia as she passes the Cunard White Star Queen Elizabeth, seen in background, which is undergoing annual overhaul in the dry dock at Southampton.The Cunard White Star luxury vessel, the 34,183-ton Caronia, left Southampton on her maiden voyage to New York today (Tues.). First Post-War British liner designed primarily as a dollar-earner, she is the largest built in the world since the war - at a coast approaching four million pounds. Carrying nearly 1,000 passengers, shw is off on a more southerly course nearer the Azores than the normal route, the object being to test the effect of the new sun and sea on the liner's "New Look" paint of black, three shades of greet and aluminium. January 4, 1949.