QUEEN ELIZABETH

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 77, 28 September 1938, Page 14

QUEEN ELIZABETH

LAUNCH OF GREAT LINER

SAFELY EXECUTED

ROYAL MESSAGES

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received September 28, 1.10 p.m.) RUGBY, September 27.

Amid the cheers of 300,000 spectators the Queen launched the At* lantic liner Queen Elizabeth. Within an hour the great ship was safely in the fitting-out basin.

The Queen, in her speech, said: "The very sight of this great ship brings home to us how essential it is for the welfare of man that the arts of peaceful industry should continue—arts in prominence in Scotland, which hai long held a leading place. "The city of Glasgow has been for Scotland the principal doorway opening upon the world The narrow waters of the Clyde have been the cradle for a large part of Britain's mercantile marine So it is right that from here should come our foremost achievement in that connection —the greatest of the ships that ply to and fro across the Atlantic like shuttles in a mighty loom weaving a fabric of friendship and understanding between the peoples of Britain and the United States.

"It is altogether fitting that the noblest vessel ever built in Britain, and built with the help of her Government and her people, should be dedicated to this service. I am happy to think that our two nations are today more closely linked than ever before by a common tradition of freedom and. a common faith."

The Queen and the Princesses, who devoted the morning to a visit to the Empire Exhibition, were accorded an enthusiastic welcome on their arrival in Glasgow from London.