END OF USEFUL SHIP
The Queen. Alexandra’s long years of usefulness are over; she lies alongside a scrapped submarine in the ship-* breaking yards at Grays. The motto on her bows “Read the Word, Heal -the Sick” will breast the waves no more. . For 33 years this vessel has been in service for the North Sea fishermen, except for the war years, when she kept on as a hospital ship. More than 40,000 men have been treated aboard her for illness or broken bones. Many more thousands have come aboard her for worship, and others have come to do Shopping. For the Queen Alexandra served a threefold purpose in the lonely fishing fields of the North Sea.. Operated by the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, she was hospital, church, and shop for those who were luckyenough to be within range of her mercies.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1934, Page 21 (Supplement)
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145END OF USEFUL SHIP Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1934, Page 21 (Supplement)
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