SHIPS OF LONDON

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 18 July 1925, Page 10

SHIPS OF LONDON

} j \-F 111 TR UFA \N ANCIF.NI, DESCENT Ii fTf'ins !'ather paradoxical that " Ini ’ hearing''ne name of a Scottish r-a pr.!; | : j,, i,l i i It, u'liil’i'int. its It if lory Ha\. lif'-n * associated mainly witli Lmidr.-n (fav l j J-1 \ Snii'li a: the 1 tatly tltr:tm*' I*■ t. ' *■. . vo jt j; i-.. !,•.;'(■!' it. Sydney. aia 1 AM- j V-onnio li-1 V :ih’ t;.s boon the principal! miifpt ■■nr:-, on tin’ route of fit'- Aberdeen White Star ships. lie'll ■•til .-nit] fleartt. and litrv remain so to the prejnpt day | Tito Aherd eon l.mr if one of 'hr ui'.v few n-'tirh It.-t.s carried on. unity of its nM tradition}., with it., old house flay, in an I unbroken lilt l ' i i dr. ."'-lit from clipper ship In steamer. It;, f-hipf have always li, on no*t-d " good-lookers." and til limn .eh i! is if t to lm expected that a ••.learner should lx' aid- to compete _ I'm hoautv with that lo velic-.-l. surely, t f till man-created i Ititt'ys'. a dipper order foil .-ml, il is admittedly the cafe that the .-tranters d the line are still among the handsomest regular visitor.-; to the Loll iio;t River. ' Aberdeen green' is still die of their ti ist i nguishi ng mtt rks t hit pec it liar shade somethin'.; lie! ween a hnllle ami t s-iue 111 *t. whieli aforetime set oil sc ml mirahiv the aracimts lines of the ch]tper null;' at the Pagoda A nclmrage r r (’ircu • lar quay. And the custom ot classical names-—“jaw-ct ackers. as the •Id “Itell hack uetl to call I Item—i~-> also faithfully preserved. Whether their pronuncial inn presvnts anv less difficulty in these ilays cf popular education. or whether "So phodes” tit'il "Tin mist odes" still rhy with “eoekles" as tliev were wont to do. 1 know not. To this particular fi rm of continuity cf tradition ii is gratifving to note cite iinnortanl evn-p- ---! iin. The a nils!« of the lire record Ind cue ' rhermopylm' ‘ 'I lint vs to- 1 il should he. Si me names are in a sense surer sa net. It is a shuck to o|H''s sense of the lit ties of tilings In route aoro?t-- a motor In tat cli list rued 'Cutty Sark. or a haldheadod schocio-r cf the Holiest tyne niasituerading as "Flving Cloud." f his year is the centenary if the line- tlie ships (lyin'; the familial; house flai; berth in the King George V dock. Old st.a o'er-: recall the time when the howsoritv of the dippers and their leanins; figureheads thrust out across the roadway a a they lay in the Must a r.d West India Docks; and the s.ix-pointed star rn the red and blue swallow-tail fluttered above the warehouses amons the crowded masts and spars with many another now hi.i; since gone and for ■jo* i ep.