MARITIME MUSEUM
PROPOSAL FOR GREENWICH
SIR JAMES CAIRD'S OFFER
(Brlttsli Official Wireless.) ' ETTGBY, Kareh.26. A national maritime museum, is to, tie established in a range of buildings at Greenwich, inelnding " Queen's House." The Prime Minister informed the House of Commons that the: Government had.received from. Sir James Saird a generous offer of his magnificent col--lection of maritime relics, together with! a promise to defray the'eost, amounting i to £29,000, of putting the building in order for their reception. The contents of the. naval museum would be trans-j f erred there, together with handsome j gifts made by Sir James Caird and »thers, in anticipation of the establishment of a national maritime- museum.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 74, 28 March 1934, Page 11
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112MARITIME MUSEUM Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 74, 28 March 1934, Page 11
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