LAUNCHED BY WIRELESS
BY DUKE OF GLOUCESTER.
A WIRELESS WONDER FEAT
(Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received 10.15 a.m.) London, December 7.
The wireless arrangements at Barrow for the launching of the P. and O. liner Orion functioned without a hitch.
The Orion slid smoothly down the slipway and took the water perfectly after the Duke of Gloucester, pressing a button in, Brisbane, broke a bottle of wine across her bows. Ideal weather favoured the launching. The Duke of Gloucester s speech was amplified throughout the shipyards. Wireless experts, on hearing the tone signals from Brisbane, saw the switch a foot long snap across the operating mechanism which released a bottle of wine and also withdrew the steel triggers gripping the ship’s keel.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4633, 8 December 1934, Page 5
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