FOR THE SCRAPHEAP

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20505, 23 May 1938, Page 2

FOR THE SCRAPHEAP

**MOUB LINER S END LUCKIEST SHIP IN THE WORLD Timas Air Mail Service. LONDON. April 24. Flying a paying off pennant 72 feat lonr. a yard for every year of her service. the P. and O. liner Kaisar-I-Hlnd. known a* the •* luckiest ship in the world, arrived at Plymouth >esterday for the |*«t time. On her maiden votage in 131 i to Bombay eh* broke records. On her ore sditary v#r*ge to New York she encountered 70 icebergs in one day without mi«hap. In London To-day She ha* tra-eMM mpc one and a half ml. 'n rr >*. and passed through the *-»e; •.ana: 192 times—another record • ' out an> mishap To day ahe will reach London to be Broken up Before : at happens be- master. Captain I. Edward* will be presented with the f*- , fig Off pennant f e first ever to be fio -n b a ’ *h’p Watching the eeremonv will be • baggage master who has held hi« po*t ever rnee nn 4*n voyage 24 years ago. “It s the luckiest ship in the world, he told me We ha\e been fn gales, monsoons, typhoons and hurricanes We have been bombed, torpedoed and shelled, but no one on fx>ard has ever been hurt.”