AUSTRALIAN NEWS
SHIP LAUNCHES ITSELF. (Rec. 10.40). BRISBANE, May 13. A ten thousand-ton freighter, the “Norman”, launched herself on Saturday a quarter of an hour before the official launching ceremony was due to begin. She slipped her blocks, and slid gracefully into the Brisbane River just as the rector 'of Shipping, Sir Thomas Gordon, was about to address those present The Norman is the third ship of her class' to be launched from the same slip. The. first ship stuck on the slip,' and refused to move for some dayts.
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Grey River Argus, 14 May 1945, Page 5
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