Replicas Of Migrant Ships To U.S.

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28158, 22 December 1956, Page 11

Replicas Of Migrant Ships To U.S.

(Rec 9 p.m.) PORTSMOUTH (Virginia). Dec. 20. Full-scale duplicates of the three little ships that brought the settlers who made the first permanent English settlement in America were christened today. The vessels are the Susan Constant (100 tons), the Godspeed (40 tons), and the Discovery (20 tons).

It was 350 years ago today that the original three ships sailed from Blackwall. England, with the 104 persons who founded Jamestown. Virginia, on May 13. 1607. The three replicas will be anchored off Jamestown during * next year's 350th anniversary observance.

British Tanks for Switzerland.—The National Council, the Lower House of the Swiss Federal Parliament, today authorised the purchase of 100 British Centurion tanks, but maintained its refusal to buy 40 French Mystere jet fighters. the council today held a second reading of a bill for extra priority defence credits. —Berne. December 21. Food for East Germans.— Every railway traveller from ~3ast to West Germany from yesterday until December 23 is being offered a Christmas food parcel at the border by church railway missions. About 100.000 narcels are expected to be distributed. —Bonn, December 21. Explosion in Irish Town.—An explosion early today shook the little Northern Ireland border town of Derniwalt, near Roslea. County Fermanagh. First reports caid that noone was injured.—Belfast, December 20.