CHRISTENING NEW LINER
WOMAN'S PLUCKY ACT TRADITION ALMOST BROKEN LONDON, March 31 Tradition was almost broken at the launching of the new 15,000-ton Union Castle liner Dunvegan Castle, at Belfast. Mrs. Murray, wife of a director of the Union Castle Line, was to perforin the ceremony of breaking the bottle of champagne against the ship's bows, but when the mechanism was released she was dismayed to find that the rope from which the bottle was suspended had jammed, while the liner slid smoothly down the ways into the water. Determined to observe tradition Mrs. Murray braved the wind and drizzling rain and ran to the wharf, from which she was carried by motor boat to the ship in order to complete the ceremony. The chairman of Harland and Wolff, Mr. 11. M. Hebbeck, speaking at the subsequent luncheon, paid a tribute to Mrs. Murray for-her pluck and pertinacity.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22389, 8 April 1936, Page 13
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