In 1577 Cleopatra’s Needle was encased in a cylindrical raft and launched. The strange vessel and%the ship that towed it encountered bad luck almost from the first. Terrific storms arose, and in the Bay of Biscay the raft had to be abandoned. It seemed that Cleopatra’s Needle had been lost to us. But a'year later it w-as recovered, brought to London and placed on the Thames Embankment.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 911, 4 November 1933, Page 15
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