SHE ALMOST NEEDED A SHOEHORN. The captain of the British aircraft carrier Victorious has just told the story of six months' duty in the Pacific with the United States Navy. The ship was so wide, he said, that "she almost needed a shoehorn to get through the Panama Canal."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 252, 23 October 1943, Page 5
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49SHE ALMOST NEEDED A SHOEHORN. The captain of the British aircraft carrier Victorious has just told the story of six months' duty in the Pacific with the United States Navy. The ship was so wide, he said, that "she almost needed a shoehorn to get through the Panama Canal." Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 252, 23 October 1943, Page 5
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