GREAT WHITE SWAN.
EMPRESS OF BRITAIN.
Arrival In Auckland.
THOUSANDS WATCH PROGRESS
BERTHED WITHOUT A HITCH.
[By Telegraph.—Press Association.! AUCKLAND, April 12.
Preceded by the greyhound linoi Awatea, the giant Empress of Britain sailed with queenly grace up the Waiternata Harbour shortly after 7 o’clock this morning, watched by many thousands of people from vantage points around the harbour.
The 42,u00-ton liner was the largest ship ever to enter the Waitemata. There was an ebb tide, but the vessel berthed without a hitch, and the commander complimented the pilot, Captain Beswick, whose record in New Zealand waters dates back to 1899 and the days of three-masted barques. As the big white ship, topped with her immense buff, was escorted up the harbour by two tugs and a score of small craft, speed boats cut across the bows of “the great white swan” like a group of ducklings.
A crowd also awaited her arrival at the wharf. Most of the 450 passengers are on sightseeing tours about the city.
The Empress of Britain leaves on Friday evening for Suva and America.
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Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 20287, 12 April 1938, Page 3
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