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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1952;
DON IDDON'S BLUE RIBAND DIARY
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"The Queens have dignity— royal dignity, you might say They're stately and very British and maleatle, you might say: Mr Iddon,"
Aboard the United States., tourist and who confronted me HIS has been tho when I was accompanying Miss maiden voyage, but Margaret Truman's party to the bridge, said: "It's altogether the United States different. has. behaved liko no maidon. She is a very fast lady, a woman of the world, sleek, sophisticated, and maybe a little ruthless.
She acts like someone who has been around, and I think pahaps a diamond pin would be more sultable for her ihan a Fimple Blue Riband
Hor poise is impressive, but I do with passengers and offfects would not
not compare her with the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth.
As the designer, William Francis Gibbs, who is aboard, says: "The only resemblance between the
the Queens is that each of them floats and each carries 2,000 passengers." |
Like juggling
TH GIBBS, a lean, severe mon M"
who is capable of being acidulous, has a nickname, "The Undertaker." He would prob ably prefer to be called "The Juggler": juggling is hla hobby when he is not building ships and he
ys:
"Designing this ship was rather like juggling.
"You have to keep nine balls. In the air at the same time, and every bail must pass a cirtain point al certain time. In other words, there
must be perfect synchronisation. The secret the success and speed of the United States 19 not in the engine room or the propellers or the hull The chip was built as a whole, and no single feature took precedence.
of
"Of course, it's fortunate that the whole project was done in the United States, which is friendly to new and original plans and ideas-not like some countries,"
I will say it, Miss Lowe. This magnificent liner is undoubtedly the fastest passenger ship in the world, and she is one of the mort handsome. She is a American as Fifth Avenue, and looks as if she has just emerged from a beauty parlour. She is a sick chick, glossy and macth -Aluminium Anne of the Atlantic.
Ideal conditions
is voyage, has bren Д triumph, and the ideal weather - perfect for record- breaking takes away nothing frem her performance, although we would like to travel in her some time in bad weather.
tremors
the lush
The lack of vibration even at high speed-34 and 35 and even 30 knotes is amazing. There have been only slight in the public rooms. lounges, bars, and restaurants.
It is untrue, to say that there is no vibration at all. My little home aboard the United States is U (for "upper) 185, It is n modest little ncok, but it is big enough for a single traveller and air-conditioned as is all the ship.
Every now and again there is 3 prodigious clamour as if an express train were rearing along the corridor cutside.
rone pinic, and Caplain Vincent Astor and Miss Sara Roosevelt, nices of Mrs Astor and, of course, Mr Gibbs.
'Mrs Franklin sat next to me. She is a handsome woman with spectacular hair, and she told mo she thought that Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, were wonderful and that she WAZALS keen on horses and on polo
Then the talk got on to tele- vision, and, oh dear! Mrs Frank- in eald: "Have the British got television?"
There was
chert silence, and then we sold yes, we had; in fact, we invented television....
a man called Baird.
General Franklin, red-faced, massive, did not say much about the ship except; "We're doing all right, pretty good. I'd say we were doing all right."
Life in Aluminium Anne'
as She Broke the Record
for the Atlantic Crossing
There have been other parties party given by Mrs Vincent other night he strolled down to. We have seen a good deal Astor and chatting to a Miss from the bridge to the ballroom
Plastic has been used gener- ously also, and with success.
Mind you, I am not complain Inned the British Press group feeling slightly sorry for the coat of and began to dance, the United States resembles the
a
ing, only reporting. I am quest of the United States Lines, and there never have been more lavish bozis..
Nice parties
But
for
moro
of Miss Margaret Traman, who Vanderbilt or Astor or Roosevelt in his greatcoat. He watched
You will understand now why- very pro-British, and even for a while, then took his great-
Hile. The Quecas Com- Queens eo Then he disappeared. modore Manning can do a neat are more opulent, richer, more
and
gracious. tango. He wears wings, and is spacious
accomplished an airman as dignified, and possibly a little bit and plays the piano. quite
The service on the United States Is quite good. 'But the fastest passenger ship in the
me
this
03
Bow and ngain. Miss every Truman tells me: "I'm going to Queens, Mary and Elizabeth. tour Europe Arst London and
mostly the North of England and Wales voyage has been work. There's and Scotland and Dublin, Paris, been the daily Press conference he is a seaman, Algo he boxe; old-fashioned. Switzerland, Germany, Denmark,
In the vivid, blue-and-green and Norway-quite a trip,"
observation lounge. Miss Truman anys she condot icke a vacation from politics as concerned,
Mr Gibbs is justifiably proud DUT I have been on this trip and we will not remind him of to do a reporting job, no
a party far Junket and the jot Meteor, or radar, which have enable the United States to race Covering a maiden voyage is through fog the other night. rerlous business.
No, the United States and the Elizabeth Queens Mary and chould not be compared--for other reasons too.
es. Interest is
Dead on the dot at twelve noon Commodore Harry Man- ning has strode in and an- nounced the ship's run. He is u handsome, very alert man, and he can be tough.
She is lively, quick-witted, says her candidate for the Presidency Of course, I have been to is Jimmy Durante. rome parties, and very nice too." General John Franklin, presi- It has not been a very dazzling dent of the United States Lines, voyage ag far វេទ glittering gave one the other evening, and functions and big names are traveling Margaret Truman was there, in concemed. I most enjoyed a night, but looks fresh. The
As Miss Kathleen Lowe, of Southsea, who Is
T
The
Battle For Has Gone On
of
the
Speed For
...
The commodore has been get ng only four hours. of slerp o
Records 100 Years
again it was Germany, America's
Bremen (51,000 tons)
press
mon.
Ultra-modern
n
BOUT the ship itself. It is ultra modern, a big chromium, air conditioned, streamlined Park Avenue apart ment house aflobt.
Some rooms resemble night- clubs; they are like the Rainbow Boom, and the Starlight Roof In NewYork, and the American bar at the Savoy.
bars
DS
to
I like the, ship. It is decorated in bright and dazzling coloury;" There
are sca-green carpets and occan-blue chairs; there
Once in 1887, and two years later HE United States' re-
new record-breaker oyster-white walls and brilliant clipped this time in the late 1920's, which a reported to have cost £25 pillar box-red chaire; there are
cocktail after sixty the City of Brussels covery,
another four hours off this re- won the honour back with the millions, most of which has sparkling
Quite a man! three years, of the cord,
and the come from a Government sub- luxurious as anything on land. highly-prized and much-
world has not got the fastest sidy. The Vuited States is in- The ballroom is palatial. By then, more and more Europa. They did not enjoy sured in the British market to coveted Blue Riband of the rivals were entering the
And, the amazing feature of service. The Cunarders have. field. the honour long, for the Em- the tune of £8 millions about all the decorations is that they The system of pressing a button Atlantic, brings into the The White Star Line produced
of Britain, the. Italian a third of it in the hands of
are fire-proof. No, inflammable for bell-boys does not stem limelight once again the the Ane Belfast-built fleet
Reiner Rex, and the French 82, Liverpool underwriters.
material has been used: no work very well and some tremendous competition Oceanle, Atlante, Baltic, 000-ton Normandie all improved
fabrics, pictures, tables floor- stewards have too much to do public, Celtic and that has been a dominating lutter taking the westward re on their times.
There is a trophy connected coverings, sofas, chairs that can at peak rush-hours. The food with the Blue
Riband an burn.
is excellent, but not imaginative. feature of the most lucra card in 1872, but Cunard came
Then came the reign, of the ornate silver plece, nearly four
Mr Gibbs insisted on this. Ho The big story of this maiden tive shipping route in the back with Umbria and Etruria, mightiest Cunarders of all the feet high, which is at present
reigned as undisputed world for over a hundred which
Queen Mary (81,000 tons) and in a jeweller's shop in Market rays: The thing to do is to pro- voyage has been the phenomenal champions of the Atlantic for the Queen Elizabeth (83,000 Square, St
Stoke-on-Trent
where vent fires before they happen, speed. The United States is a, “years."
over five years, the Etruria-tons). The QM. went three it was sent during the war for Sprinklers? No sir. A non- speel-ship. Gibbs says averaging 19.0 knots.
hours better than the Normandie safety. It was presented by Mr Inflammable ship that's the ship is the product of explosive The Inman Line, reorganised in 1936, and two years later set Harold K. Haica, MP for Hanicy, thing." And he has done it power-American industry." first as the Red Star and then up the time of three days, 20 in 1935. The Cunard Line refused There is almost no wood aboard hours and 42 minutes, a record the trophy when it was won by except reportera pencils. This over as the American Line, once
the Q.M. Their attitude was that is an aluminium vessel-even again dethroned the Cunarders which lasted for 14 years.
She is a very fast lady Indeed competitive racing across the the lifeboats and deck-rails and the with a new City of Paris and The Queens cost between ve Allantic was not to be
the vases in the cabins, are FOOTNOTE: That's City of New York, twin- and six million Pounds,
while couraged.
aluminium.
United States that, was, after the malden vogage of the
the screw linors which were first Cunaider, a name which sidered as the most beautiful of has becn ociated so con- their day, The Cily of Paris in sistently with the Riband, This 1889 crossed the Atlantic
the 1,154 ton wooden both directions in less than six paddle steamca Britannia, which days at an average sted of did the journey from Liverpool over 20 knots, but it had to Boston in 14 days at an aver- give way in the same year to
the White Star's famous age speed of 0.6 kncis,
tonic and Majestic.
The 53,000-ton United States" sccord-breaking run from Am- brse Light to Bishop's Rock 82 hours and 40 minutes.
ten hours faster than the Queen Mary accomplishest
in, Augus 1938-took place just
Wes
This had been a considerable improvement 011 the calling ships, and started a keen rivalry between chipping companies on both sides of the Atlantic, for the firm which could put up the best time for the crossing could of the count ca the cream passenger traffic and obtain the Government mad contracts,
Hit Back
con-
in
to
Teu-
the
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It is. The United States moves
if she were jet-propelled.
tho
King Who Has
Become a
Prisoner
By SEFTON DELMER
,
us your orders and wo
shall obey."
I do not know how much of afraid of what he might see "Give these plans-which are the there. official decision of the cabinet und Regency Council-are now known to the King.
a
THE Cunard Company, strong- ly criticised for not making a unending bolder claim in this struggle for greater speed, soon hit back with Campania and Lucanic, each of which cost £050,000.
"They
Only two or three times did. ruled
But when the royal · "proces. smile of recognition and glon, Jcd by for three years,
machine-gun Nort North Atlantic for
friendship light up his face, carrying police i Land Rovers, averaging same 22 knots, but in
Amman, July 8.
He certainly did not have any Then it was gone again-re- reached Amman feel it sud 1807 the Blue Riband passed, PECIALLY picked iden of, them, or the fate which placed by that look of sullen denly swung sharp right; In- for the first time, to Germany
troops of Jordan's was awaiting him when, to suspicion and distrust.
⚫stead of going on into the with the Norddeuts:her Lloyd's
Arab
gether with a small, specially
capital it took the road to the 14,000-ton Iner Kalrer Wilheld British - trained
of Jordan I don't blame him. It's dia group der Crosse
palace, 22.51 Legion are standing guard notables, I watched him land in trust was justified. For right knola,
in and around the long, his Dove plane on Amman air- up to the gates of his palace prison was the comedy kept up Nor was this the only major handsome, one storey fold Inst week.
that his homecoming German vessel on the route palace where King Talal is
woo. on by 1902 they
Legion guns boamed entirely normal rayal home owned the four sleeping
home at lust out a, royal salute and the guard coming. There was nothing to then put in tastest liners affect, and the
Pasha, the white haired British awaited him,
For the next ten years, be- tween 1840 and 1850, however, the Cunarders, continually im- proving the design, size, and speed of their ships, were supreme, and by 1950 the Asia had worked up an speed of 12.2 knots.
Evernge
First Challenge
THE Americans
than the
achieving
Amert-
-
Arab
on on the back rent, stood cheer ten-month sentence.
ing clapping crowds. He had
an into hard times, the Arctic palaces, the Lusitania and the prisoner on his own throne I was only three yards from
refused to have the Premier ac- No-one, neither his wife nor mpanying him, just ús ‚he hind' als family, will be with him;
to fly here without Even his beloved horses have the ministers who had gone to been removed, Beirut le moet him. They fol- towed in a second plane.
throo
Now barbed wire and police THE
their first serious challenge, following year the Atlantle after his long and bizarre of honour presented arms. Glubb suggest the "trogle fate which lined the road instead of cheer- five new ships of the Dramatic crown pzased
eltizens. Two minutes more to the 10,000-ton "health trip" to Europe. commander of 20 Legion, Line coming into service, all of liner Deutschlandi.
which were bigger, faster and
The soldiers have strange fatherly devotion of an ancient which he sped in his elegant had clanged behind him. Talat stepped forward and with the All along the route down and the royal car had alid in to the palace courtyard. The antes moro luxurious more
About the time the Ampoint orders, "Under no circum- and trusted family retainer its black limousine, a lonely figure was alone ready to begin Cunarders. The Blue Riband can financier, passed in 1851 to the Battle Morgan, formed the International stances will you permit his ed his young royal master with 13:17 knots. The Pacific Mercantile Marine Company. majesty to leave the palace. both checks. achieved a similar speed, while which swallowed up a number If
necessary, you will the Arctic reached 13.25 knots of British firms, uut Cunard the following year.
restrain him by force.” held out and, assiɛted by a £2- 600,000 British Government loan, j However, this company soon built those two great.
For poor, flok King Tula 19 Boating
Only ministeraand sinking in a collision and the Mauretania,
and revolutionary
in his own palace. And the King, when, in in white
Regory Counelt members will brown,
gold. From the crowd dick ja Pacific disappearing in my lines., They
ot be allowed, to soɑ him. And of were each. 30,000 there he is to remain headdress and sterious
over. 'circumstances, <
for The tons, with
the next ten bordered Amb cloak
"This is a good day for us : 0 course a doctor, who is to sub- quadruple screws, prisoner alarmed U.S. Congress withdrew and introduced turbines for the months to be precise, until rey European suit, he stood on King," and some of them mit him to a'painful treatment its subsidy, and the company first time instead of the usual May 2, 1953,
a specially carpeted portion of stretched forth lambs and kids of insulin injectors and electric. went into liquidation,
for dear [ód: "which For on that day Emir Hussein the hangar and meated one by which had been offered up in shocks, The Lusitania wos aunk
Talal refused to enter, clinics.. one the councillors who had sacrifice. The Inman Line, which and the beginning of World War One, the King's younger son, now at come to meat him...
in Europe. concentrated on immigrant traf- but the Mauretania, which had Harrow, will come of age. King
Triumphal arches decorated fic, then picked up the gauntlet, brought the
His face looked muddy and in national and royal colours What opposition politicians Atlantic crossingThat will be able to radicale, lis City of Pario, an elegant doan to four days, 10 hours and hand on his crown to the young drawn with fatigue. His eyes had been put up at regular in- are asking here is: "How long acrow-propelled ship, crossed 41 minutes in 1909, was to keep prince, and retire himself to live were dull and without lustre. tervals. They boro much loyal will Talal stand for this? Art .from Queenstown to Now the Blue Riband for 20 years the rest of his days in freedom, la bandaluke disticas and auto inscriptions as "Welcome home how long will the propte mighty tolerate the incarceration of the York in eight days, four hours the longest any shig has ever either, here in Jordan or some matle. Ho svemed to avoid look to your Dirone, O - and a minute - the, fastest yet held the distinction,
where abroad.
ing in anyone's eyes as though Hashemite King of Jordan," King whom they love?!!
on
reciprocal
engines.
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