OLD LINER'S SUICIDE
TO AVOID "ROTTEN ROW"
FULL SPEET> FOR SHORE
(Received :27tk. April, 2.30 p.m.) ' LONDON, 26th April. . . AY.it 1j flags flying-ana screws', revolving . at.'full'speed, the ■■ Pacific Steani Navigation's 9000-ton liner Orita, for thirty years a popular ship on the South American run, will, gloriously commit suicide by dashing on the beach at Morecambo in order to break herself up before selling to the- shipbreakcrs, | thus avoiding the usual fato of disused liners waiting in "Rotton How" for the "melancholy cud.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 97, 27 April 1931, Page 10
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82OLD LINER'S SUICIDE Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 97, 27 April 1931, Page 10
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