BRITANNIA TRIP
f' Sfmmim I Jamia At Hji (MX Prase Ashiz-CewrteM) SUVA. Jtoiaaqr 87. • W*mb th* Royal yacht Brttaania arrived at L*utok*. Fiji, • Brittffi mnan, 59-year-old Joseph O’Connall. *Mr OGonnSr*ef Sooth Shields, wos injured in a boiler flashback in the cargo ship Glenmour bound from Portugal to New Zealand. Ifr O’Cnanoßwea transferred badly burned from the Gtenmoor in mid-South Pacific to the Britannia on JenuV O’Connell arid today “Britannta’s erew haa been wonderftil to me, from Admiral (Rear-Admiral J. C. C. Henley) downward*. “They could not do enough for me.
“I had everything I wanted, and the Admiral came to aee me several time* to see if I was being looked
after properly. "At first I did not care whet ship they put me on. but soon I thought it was worth getting burned to be in the Britannia,” arid Mr O’Connell.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30042, 29 January 1963, Page 17
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