KING AND NAVY
' Speech at Opening of Mttseum -DRAKES NEEDED TO-DAV (Eeceived 28, 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, April 27. Their Majesties the King and Queen, with Princess Elizabeth, embarked on the Admiral 's barge at Westaxinster and journeyed down the Eiver Thames, •scorted by fdur motor torpedo-boats, to open the National Maritime Museucn at Greenwieh. Sirens of tttgs and freighters sereamed greeting, aeroplanes roared overhead and gr6at crowds were on "the b&nks, also on nioored lighters. There was ha nnfehearsed thrill passifg Cleopatra^s Needle whea a ten-foot wave snrged up the Embankment and knoeked down several ipectatdrs. The King, replying to an address-of welcome, recalled his own life in the Navy, and said he was glad tbat the opening of the mnseum was one of the flrst ceremonies of his reign. "The British Comnionwealth of Nations wonld never Bave come.into existence but for the enterprise, courage and eharacter of our seaaien," he said. "The qualities of Drake, Nelson, and IVanhlin are as necessary to-day fts •ver "
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 86, 28 April 1937, Page 5
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