“KAISER-I-HIND”

Grey River Argus, 17 May 1938, Page 3

“KAISER-I-HIND”

WORLD’S LUCKIEST SHIP. , LONDON, April 23. The P. and O. liner Kaiser-I-Hind made her last arrival at this week flying a paymg-off pennant the first to be flown by a \essel at her masthead. Ca’lJ Luckiest ship in the world, this 11,5 8 ton liner is shortly to be oroken up. Iler payipg-off pennant was 24 yard long—a yard to every year of her ser vice. It is to be presented to her master, Captain L. Edwards. One of the liner’s oldest inhabitants” is the New Zealand-born baggage master, Charles Osborne, who has held the post since the maiden voyage 24 years ago. “She is the luckiest ship in the world,” he said at Plymouth. She was attacked by submarines during the war, not once, but many times, but always the torpedoes missed us. On one of these occasions we had Viscount Chelmsford, the Viceroy of India, on board. We have been in tales, monsoons, typhoons and hurri- ■ canes; we have oeen bombed, toiI pedoed and shelled, but no one on ■ Loard has ever been hurt.” ; The Kaiser-I-Hind on her maiden > voyage to Bombay in 1914, broke lei ords, and on her one voyage to New i York she encountered 70 icebergs in t a day without mishap. She has travelI led over 1,500,000 miles and has passI kI through the Suez canal 192 limes ■—another record.