OPENED BY THE KING
MARITIME MUSEUM
COURAGE ON THE SEA
NECESSITY TODAY
tTTnlted Press Association—By Electric Tel*'
graph—CopyrlEUt.) (Received April 28, 10 a.m.)
LONDON, April 27,
The King and Queen and Princess Elizabeth " embarked on an Admiral's barge at Westminster and journeyed down the river escorted by four motor torpedo-boats to open the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich. The sirens of tugs and freighters screamed a greeting and aeroplanes roared overhead. There were great crowds on the banks and also on moored lighters.
There was an unrehearsed thrill passing Cleopatra's Needle, when a ten-foot wave; surged ,up the embankment and knocked down several spectators.
The King, replying to an address of welcome, recalled his own life in the Navy and said he was glad the opening of the museum was one of the first ceremonies of his reign.
"The British Commonwealth would never have come into existence .but for the enterprise, courage, and character of our seamen," he said. "The qualities of Drake, Nelson, and Franklin are as necessary today as ever."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 99, 28 April 1937, Page 11
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172OPENED BY THE KING Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 99, 28 April 1937, Page 11
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