CHRISTENING NEW LINER
WOMAN’S PLUCKY ACT TRADITION ALMOST BROKEN LONDON, March 31. Tradition was almost broken at- the launching of the new 15,CG0-ton Onion Castle liner Duuvegan Castle, at Belfast Mrs. Murray, wife of a diroctoi of the Union Castle Line, was to perform the ceremony of breaking the bottle of champagne against the ship a hows, 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 ram ami ran lo the wharf, from which she was carried by motor boat to the ship in order to complete the ceremony. The chairman of Harland and Vol it. Mi. IT. M. Hob beck, speaking at the yubseqnrnt luncheon, paid a tribute to Mrs. Murray for her pluck and pertinacity.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18987, 11 April 1936, Page 15
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152CHRISTENING NEW LINER Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18987, 11 April 1936, Page 15
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