RENOWN AT KINGSTON

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 17, 21 January 1927, Page 10

RENOWN AT KINGSTON

WELCOME TO ROYALTY

PICTURESQUE CEREMONIAL

(Received 21st January, 2 p.m.)

KINGSTON, 20th January. Working absolutely to schedule the Renown this morning stood in from the Carribean, picking up the low-lying, palisaded coast, threaded her way through, the intricate navigation of the entrance, rounded Port Royal, of infamous memory, and moved majestically up the sunlit harbour of Kingston to her anchorage, followed \>y a Royal Salute from the guns of a shore, battery and two cruisers of the West Indian Squadron, dressed and manned to welcome her. The foreshore of Jamaica's capital was fringed with populace backed by flagged houses peeping through trees, already flickering in a heat haze. The stately, silent ceremonial of anchoring, never changing, but over new; went forward apparently without effort. The Renown might have been the Ancient Mariner's ship, so little movement there seemed either on board or through the water, as the cables roared through the hawse-pipes. Then she broke her flags, wreathing herself from stem to stern in bunting, while the squadron's guns blared out a Royal Salute, and the flagship's band played the National Anthem. ' The Renown, did not answer according to the etiquette of the occasion. "Carry-on" was the order till official calls began First, the Governor, Sir Reginald Stubbs, his secretary Mr. A. S. Jelf, and Colonel Mudge, 0.C., of troops, were welcomed on the quarter-deck with a full guard. Here they paid their respects to the Duke of York. They were followed by the Admiral of the Squadron and the Vice-Admiral.