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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1951.

Southampton.

HEN

the Queen Mary ties up alongside tho Ocean Terminal at Southampton, the first thing that happens is that an "hotel" with roughly 10 times the accommodation of the Charing Cross, Hotel empties itself in an hour or two..

Those who are left in the ship know that in less than 40 hours, boat-trains wili bring more than 2,000 guesta for a Ave-day tay,

Clearly, there

Dew

vast

amount of work to be done be hind the 1020ft long wall that the side of the ship presents to the quay.

Yet most of the 1200 crew of

IN THE PRESER'S OFFICE, Mias Mary Moberly Ball, umming modul ribbon, is ready to career questivat

RESTAURANT MANAGER Houching goes over, every detail of the mess with Chief Chef Henry Mist (^25 yaers in the kitchen”) and actre senior chef Joseph McDonald

chain). The kill of Toro har 150 jams.

WITHIN AN HOUR of besthing. Coptola Harry Grattides hongs up.ħla uniform and slips into a mat, pin-stripe teit, His "Tiger,” Steward Markwick, helpe his on with his overcoat,

HIGH STREET, QUEEN MARY

the 81,278-ton Iiner look for ward to a few hours ashore and during that 48-hour turn-round period. They can get it

there is a turn-round

cause

be-

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SCANDINAVIAN AFREINES SYSTEM

NASACCENT THORESEN

routine for these great ships Pulsing heart of the Queen In the next "shop" along everybody knows Just Mary, in port or at sen, is the the High Street, Chief Store- what job to do.

one-sixth-of-a-mile long Work- keeper J. Teasdale sat in an Harry Captain

Grattidge ing Alloyway.

oven smaller ofice. But what was already out of uniform Into this broad stream, run- larder he controls from that when I reached his cabin ning directly under the big -square corner! Here are under

the bridge 20 minutes restaurants and kitchens, flows some of the items that reach after

the Blue Ribard holder the life-blood of the ship-food, him, mostly on the other side came ln.

water, linen and stores of of the Atlantic. "Shr behaved as well BB every kind. usual," he told me. "Now I am A newspaper boy ran along handing over to the staff the metal highway selling the captain and catching the next latest editions as I stepped train to London for a tow down

to "High Street, hours."

Steward Markwick, of to

Queen Mary."

More than 750,000 Service- his own family at Win- men carried in the ship during chester, helped Captain Grat- the Wor knew it as tidge into his cont

Burma Road,"

see

72,000 eggs;

12,000lb of bacon;

4,00016. of ham; 5,000lb. of cherie; 15,000lb. of sugar;

12,000lb, of butter and

Tea and coffee by the ton.

"the Fruit

Julces, baby foods, sauces, 10 different kinds of Ä decorative line of odd

In a tiny office off the main cereals-Mr Teasdale knows Bttle dolls looked on from the "road," I talked with Chief where to put his hand on any ledge of the bookcase. Nelson, Linen Keeper Pattinson while of it with a black patch over one the washing was carried away cyc, was propped up not far in hundreds of linen bags. from a 10-inch high Canadian Mounted Polleeman,

Mr

For ship cleaning purposes, Teasdale handles 10,000lb. of soft soap at a time. I looked

GIANT LARDER at als llits, "Mops, matches "That little collection ham "There ore 125,000 sheets, (18,000 boxes), powder-bath, rather grown on me," said the pillow-cases, napkins and other allver plate, soap, dance floor, man who spends most of his items off the wash," he said. they read. days handling £15 million "We

worth

Atlantic.

He was still running through shall pick up what the of ship on the North Queen Elizabeth left

them- -"Children's fancy dress all this will be clean in as I stepped back on to the behind, hats, drinking straws, vinegar" 10 time for the QE"

Four decks down, white and coated stewards, working in

on

boef, each of them with more Standing by 30 lolus Of

endless chain, were taking to sen as a bo'sun's boy," added

"It is 40 years since I came main highway. the last of the hand luggage Pattinson as he checked bla ashore. Keeping his place in lists.

the steadily moving line, Evan Williams, first class bedroom steward from Beaumaris, North Wales,

said, "I have beca

30 years with the Cunard, That hundreds of crossings, means but exactly how many I do not know."

BUTCHER Lewis Watkins and nine other men in "the best butcher's show, at see" get busy on the chops and stroks. Each loin of beef has more then 100 British weekly rations in it.

A CORNER of ibe First Class restaurant gets a special "-turn-round“ polish, Only when the skip gões for overboul.ere the tables " undressed.”

"THE WASHING

than 100 British weekly rations' in them, I found Chief But- cher J. Critchley,

100 TURKEYS

"I have got 10 men working here

with Ine,' he told . "It is the best butcher's shop at sea now the old-

Aquitania has gone,

meal, and

hundred said

"One

turkeys

disappear here,"

Mr Critchley proudly.

A wall rises by the quay-side.

THE GIANT animos, and oran the nor Ocama Tavanlaal in dwarfed. When the chip gets nlongside it lu s if a 102014,-Jong well had suddenly risen . up on the quayside. Most of the 1200 cone of the 96,273-tom floor lock forward to a few houer ashova dosing this tune-round period." And 2000 new guests ambos for sale-day stay while the floating hodel cromss to Dew York.

Hendon Habnets Baratas.

women officers in the Purser's Davidson who pointed out where The Pig and Whilstle," the department wore a smart uni- the first order would be rung crew's own bar ut the end of form jacket in navy blue with down when the 200,000 h.p. the High Streel, is closed in gold buttons and gold rings on engines were started up again, port, so I climbed on deck to the sleeves. Her job: preparing the six long, shining kitchens,

the new passenger lists and sort- "Our big turn-round job is Chief Chef Harry Mist (25 ing mail ("letters arrive by the topping up with vil," he said. years at sea, always in the thousand")."

"We use about 1,100 tons a day kitchen") was In conference with Restaurant Manager Arthur deck crew were all at work on

Bellboys, cleaners, painters, when we are at dea."

Turning round one of the Houching. They discussed future the turn-round.

world's two 00,000-ton ships is bilis of fore with more than

And, of course, down in the hard but satisfying work, Chief 150 lems on them.

engine-rooms the inevitable Steward Walter Wilson, whose "It was simpler when we Scots were at work. Not all the day, after 40 years at sea is served 10,000 meals twice a day a8 engineers are Scots, but from 8.30 a.m. to midnight, told to troops and crew in the ship," it was Staff Chief said Mr Mist, recalling the war-

tire voyages.""

FRESH LINEN

Although the ship is in port, trèsh white linen is on the tables,

"We only undress the tables when the ship goes for an over- haul," Mr Houching said.

Twice a day while the Queen Mary is at sea, walters are called

to a service conference.

A

Seventy-five women help the Queen Mary to tum round in two days.

Chist Stewardess Dorothy Young did not hesitate to say

that without them,

it was

Engineer me so with emphasis,

Extraordinary Honeymoon

By DON TAYLOR

ISS LEONA JAY, of the reconstruction of dinosaurs.”

New

M Park

Avenue,

Miller set out for the hill- country, From # plateau,

unlikely that the two-day tum-York, WBR Д popular looking down on to a swamp, round would be accomplished. Bociety girl-with a taste he saw the reeds moving.

Watching Stewardess Con-

stance Conolly flipping the last for adventure. week of dust from speck

His wife crawled alongside

first-class This, did she but know him. And then, "a head cabin No. 53 ("It was part of it, was to bring her to the rose

up

the sulte used by the Duke and

Miller

moved his camera into Duchess of Windsor"); most extraordinary honey- line and a colossal remnant of thoroughly agreed.

moon.

.

Stewardess Conolly worked

very

quickly, chatting all the

It was

the age of dinosaurs across the' swRIND.

slalkod

a honeymoon on "Once its tall lashed out of

time. "Go to sea and you'll never which she and her husband the grass so far behind its bend get married, they told me. What discovered Stone Age men I thought that it must be an time have we got for romance?"

other beust"

Then, with a twinkling eye, and sub-human pigmies. The Millers lay there, watch-

she added: "The hairdresser

Cannibals

were

their ing "this relle of the Pleistocene did marry the · gymnasium 'in-companions.

Age" Then Bo managed to structor the other day, and

And they tracked down get his camera going. there have been other sur-

a monster, prises,"

an "armoured" Miss Mary Moberly Bell, one colossus.

the Queen Mary's four

The morister "reared up on its hind legs....shot its maky The story is told by head in their direction." The Loona's husband, Charles scales were Jald on ko {"Cannibal") Miller in armour-pinte. “'Nifer' would "Cannibal Caravan have been useless, "ame (Museum

Miller's film ́ren "out" and the monster disappeared.

158).

1. Pyces,

Ltd.,

The couple were shaken with

They went Inlo the Dutch Now Guinea fear, and the use of their logs forests. There, Leona won deserted them, They crawled over all the plamies,

away` on their stomachs.".. j. Miller, found himself. takon on à hoad-hunting, axpedition.

He had to go. to save the lives of his party, for the savages wanted his guns,

She becapito

́"chief, witch-doctor, good spirit, and everything else.".

In one villagu tribes- men told Kor that

This time Leons stayed be- "tusha" sem in the neigh hind. Miller was swept up in botafood came, from the ́a' dawn-attack on 4 village.

an unknown It was prehistoric, dreadful slaughter with akume chab and In the sand the villagers arrow. In minutos

something with a village was wiped out,

Ami

of

monater.

drack and a huge, Thetho "head harve

long

hump-backed body ter-"xhibition of violent, a man minning In a dong tail,

They, paced out, 40 feet Sixty honda, were back." There was un

to show its longth, hiệ

the

Gheto bonde with cancktig fr#72 hours,"

drew Vidaring cannibal feasting, . Colebrations,

with

triangular ·What a hoKDYT

scalos jutting out of the

back,

"huat se shown. In