HOISTING THE RED ENSIGN
MERCANTILE MARINE RECON- . STEUCTION.. . In the process of reconstruction now taking place in every branch o£ industrial and commercial activity; the mercantile marine, shares. Here everything is proceeding .with remarkable smoothness, , and without any of the friction displayed elsewhere between employers and employed. Our big liners, states the "Shipping World," which, in .pre-war days, were the pride of Britain and the emblem of . British shipping enterprise the world.over, are gradually returning to their peaceful trading routes, and, though subject to certain limitations in respect of e-rrying troops westward across the Atlantic,' they are restored to their owners for the purpose of resuming, forthwith the tTaftic in which they were engaged before war began.; One such vessel is the White Star liner Olympic, which hoisted the Red Ensign at the Mersey port in . February, last, and a''luncheon on- board celebrating the event brought outcome interesting details of this ■ contribution to the victorious ending.of the war. She has to her credit not only the gallant rescue and timely service rendered' to the sinking battleship Audacious, but also tho .sinking of a submarine; while the presumption 'is that a second submarine met her end •by coming iii collision with her. As' a troopship she carried 25,000.men to Mudros, and in nil her war service she took on board 201,000 passengers, and of this number 175,000 under tho White Ensign. This is the record of the Olympic alone, but as Lieut.-Colonel Stayer, of tho United States' Army, observed, the White Star Line with its fleet has transported 500,000 of the 1,000,000 American troops who have passed through Liverpool," and of the 2,000,000 men who have gone to France. This is a record of which Lieut.-Colonel Stayer says tho Olympic and the White Star Line have great cause to be proud, and we, on our part, feel that when normal conditions of travel return, it will lie recounted with pride how this great liner and the vessels generally of the White Star Line contributed towards (lie winning of the war. Captain Bertram Hayes, the able commander of the Olympic, deservedly merits the distinctions that have fallen to him in his war service, and the owners are likewise to be congratulated on all they have done in placing their fleet and experience at t'he disposal of the Allies.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 190, 7 May 1919, Page 7
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386HOISTING THE RED ENSIGN Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 190, 7 May 1919, Page 7
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