CHRISTENING THE SHIR
It is interesting to refleet in connexion with the launching ceremony for ships that the custom of tying the bottle of champagne to the ship itself has been describee! as arising out of an accident —an accident due to woman’s notorious inability to throw straight. Professor G. I. Taylor, the Yarrow research professor of the Royal Society, gave that explanation last year when he was supervising the launch'by a little girl of a model ship from a model slipway into a model tank. “Years ago,” he said, “when a woman threw a bottle to break it over the ship .she completely missed the vessel and hit someone in the croxvd. Noxvadays bottles are always tied to the vessel itself when used in ship launchings.” •
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 39, 9 November 1938, Page 19
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