Battleship in an Hotel.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLII, Issue 3, 20 January 1909, Page 54

Battleship in an Hotel.

The banqueting hall of the Savoy Hotel was converted into the quarter-deck ot a battleship for the Pilgrims’ Chib dinner to the American and British delegates to the International Maritime Conference, recently held in London. What sounded like the salute of twenty one guns greeted the distinguished guests as they entered the hall. In the distance over the moonlit water in the background were seen the twinkling lights of Portsmouth, while on the quarter-deck of 11.M.5. Welcome a seaman in full naval uniform was busy all the evening at the wheel.. Waiters, also disguised as seamen, in snowy white trousers and jackets, with blue scarfs, passed from table to table a. tending to the needs of the guests with ill I the smartness one expects from a sailo r. A?