WORLD'S BIGGEST SHIP
VATERLAND REACHES NEW YORK BREAKS AWAY FROM THE TUGS (Per Independent Cable Service.) NEW YORK, May 20 The Hamburg7Ame.ric.an liner "Vaterland, the largest ship in the world, ■arrived in New York to-day on her maiden voyage. The leviathan broke away irom the tugs that were helping to berth her and began to drift down the Hudson helpless in the grip of the strong ebb tide that was running. The big liner swung broadside across the river, and was carried steadily down, the stream After she had drifted more' than a mile, the tugs succeded in getting hold of the Vaterland again, and- eventually the ship was safely berthed.
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Grey River Argus, 30 May 1914, Page 5
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