SLOOP’S NEW ROLE
LONDON. Dec. 6. The sloop H.M.S. Wellington, which served on * a New Zealand station in the late ’thirties and was recommissioned at Wellington in 1937, has been bought by the Honourable Company of Master Mariners and converted to be-come-the company’s livery hall. She is to arrive from Chatham at Temple Stairs, Victoria Embankment, Lonuon, next Tuesday.
The ship is to serve as the headquarters for the company and as a meeting place for conferences on shipping matters. Space will be provided for a museum and library. It is the first time in the history of the City of London that a livery company has had its “hall" afloat.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GISH19481210.2.6
Bibliographic details
Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22816, 10 December 1948, Page 2
Word Count
111SLOOP’S NEW ROLE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22816, 10 December 1948, Page 2
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Gisborne Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.