SALE OF RIVER CLYDE.
FAMOUS SHIP UNPROFITABLE. PROPOSED NATIONAL MEMORIAL. Australian *nd 2F.2L Press Association. LGSDON, Jan. IS. The military correspondent of the Morning Post says the purchasers of the River Clyde have found the ship to be unprofitable, and are offering to reseH her. He says the ship' 3 sentimental value to Britain is considerable. Perhaps some person or persons may be disposed to secure her as a national manorial of one of the most gallant episodes in military annals. In the House ot Commons on November 27 the President of the Board of Trade, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, gave the reasons why the Government had sold the tninsport River Clyde. He said the board had no powers to repurchase the steamer and to moor her permanently at the Thames Embankment as a relic of the war and the Gallipoli campaign, in which she had figured.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20156, 17 January 1929, Page 11
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146SALE OF RIVER CLYDE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20156, 17 January 1929, Page 11
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