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DIFFICULTY OVER NAMING.
ANOTHER “QUEEN ELIZABETH.” An unexpected difficulty has arisen in connection with the naming of the Queen Mary's sister-ship. The CunardWhite Star Line have discovered that there is already in existence a properly registered Queen Elizabeth, and Board of Trade regulations forbid the same name being borne by more than one merchant ship on the British register.
The Queen Elizabeth is not a seagoing vessel —that is why she was overlooked—but that makes no difference. She is a 90-ton pleasure steamer owned by Joseph Mears Launches and Motors, Limited, o f Richmond. Surrey, and employed on the upper reaches of the Thames in the summer, and so long as she is afloat under that name “N0”552” cannot be called Queen Elizabeth.
The problem will be solved, no doubt, as it was in the case of the Queen Mary, when a Clyde pleasure steamer’ of that name, owned by Wil-liamson-Buchanan Steamers, Limited, was renamed Queen Mary 11. The Board of Trade rule regarding names is a comparatively modern and very wise one. It is designed to prevent confusion and possible unnecessary alarm when ships are reported from sea by .name, particularly if in trouble.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1938, Page 5
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198NEW GIANT LINER Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1938, Page 5
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