148 Book of Steamships 



Some years ago a smart-looking liner 

 turned up on the Canadian service. Many 

 old sea-farers looked at her; some smiled 

 and nodded, others were frankly puzzled. 

 Those who smiled recognised the new- 

 comer as a thirty-year old Blue Riband 

 holder in her heyday. But those who did 

 not know went home to wonder how it 

 was that without any beating of drums 

 the newcomer had promptly annexed the 

 Canadian speed record and kept it for 

 some years until she was sold to the 

 Turks. This was the old Germanic of the 

 White Star Line, subsequently the Ottawa, 

 and now bearing an unpronounceable 

 Turkish name. 



