ttttdag VOL. 3 -- NO. 22 HAMILTON, BERMUDA SUNDAY, MAY 28, 1950 PRICE 6D Floating Dock Is En CHANGE Long Careerf Wit ON NEW WILL BE SCUTTLED IN DEEP FOR„_OLD WATER IF NO BUYJR FOR HER Buyers Of New Models By HARRY ROSE (Sunday Royal Gazette reporter) Must Wait Until Old There will be a frantic clanging of bells, buzzing of telephones and pull­ ing of switches in the control room of Floating Dock No. 5 at H.M. Dockyard on Cars Are Out Of Colony Tuesday morning. It will mean that t he old structure wiil be going through ifr motions on behalf of the British Navy for the last time in its ^-year-long The Transport Control Board has "thrown a spanner" in the "new cars for old" works. career. No longer can the owner of on old car drive up to the As the mammoth floating dock — the oldest of its kind showrooms et Young Trott & Company, hand over the keys, in commission for the Royal Navy — submerges in order to re­ and ride away in a shiny new model. The 10 days' "grace" float H.M.S. Snipe, America and West Indies Squadron sloop, allowed the dealer to dispose of the old car out of Bermuda the siren will scream a salute to the end of an honourable life­ has been withdrawn by fhe T.C.B. This means that owners time of serviee. tained at a perfect level. Spirit of old ears must wait until their vehicles are actually on the The Snipe is the last H.M. ship levels are scanned anxiously as seas before they can take possession of their new ones. The to be drvdocked in the 35.000 ton the water la" tbe tanks forces gea-eoiny fa-'tory which was the dock under the surface. new direction means a wait of a week or more for the com­ brought to Bermuda in 1946 from pany's clients. Alexandria, Egypt. The floating ORIGINAL INSTRUCTIONS The Young Trott & Company MUST BE FIVE MILES OUT dor-k is beine sold few the Ad- Mr. Patterson showed me the scheme for second-hand car dis- During the week the T.C.B. in­ nurauv i London' and will bf original instructions for operating oosal- started in March. It pro­ formed Mr. Trott that old cars removed from Bermuda within -ne floating dock, which are still vided an arrangement under *o be tra^d in for new ones must the next few months. hanging in the control room. The which owners of cars could get a be actually out of Bermuda be­ THREE MEN framed instructions are dated 1912. ade-in allowance on their old fore the new ones are delivered. Sitting on the faded and time- models and take immediate pos­ The old car has to be five miles The three men who have suner session of new ones while the re­ out of the Colony before the cus- vised The operation of the floatinp worn leather seats in the control r oom Mr. Carey told me something sponsibility of getting the second­ o o«r may receive his replace­ dock since it ar-ived in Bermuda— hand vehicles out of Bermuda, ment. Mr. M. C. Dunstan. ronstrurtor of of the work "the old lady," as she is affectionately referred to by the in compliance with legislation, "This would Inconvenience the the yard; Mr. Albert John Carev, was undertaken bv the dealers. new customer for about seven to dockmaster, and Mr. F. G. Patter­ .-iien, has done since she made her iermiida. debut at the age of 36. No longer can tiie buyer of P. 10 days," says Mr. Trott, "be-. son, foreman •— looked proudly new car drive his old one until "ause the old car may have to •.down from the control room dur- One of the la-"-est float*ng the ship, which is to take the old be repaired and made ready for A'na the week as H.M.S. Snipe rest. docks in the world, she was one away, sails from Bermuda. sbfwnent. ed on*the dock's sturdv blocks. moored temporarily on her PT- He must deposit the old car with "This is a bad arrangement. "Slurs been a rrand old ladv," rival from Alexandria in 1946, the dealer who, in some instances It is highly unlikely that our Mr. Patterson, who served in the at Port Royal, On August 24, must effect, necessary repairs to Legislature will allow a second­ or**r«*l crew of AFD-4 duriner 1948, she was moved in t3% the vehicle in preparation far hand car market to be created 191G-17, told we as he fondled j trying lieu rs to her present loca­ shipment abroad, and wait until in Bermuda, although the present one of the 88 indicator dials in ; tion at H.M. Dockyard. a ship is ready to take it away. , law permits an owner re sell his the rM 'led control room from , Mr. Co'iway Trott, partner in car to whoever he pleases, after which the K a'gts*eel structure is BIGGEST WELDING JOB the firm ofiimng Trott 8t Com- he has owned it five^years, and , worked. "And she's still a going The foundation to receive tho pany, told the Sunday Roval Ga­ still- get a new oner*- Mr. Trott concern," he offered as an after- I zette that the original scheme pointed out. thought. "She can do'a lot more j dock was built in the South Basin , and the huge 80 foot beams were was "very practical and to the He predicted that if the Legis­ work before being broken up 'benefit of Bermuda." lature extends the present law for scrap metal." made on the base—the largest welding Job ever done in the Col­ "An immediate arrangement appertaining to used can instead "That's the last British Naw should be made by the Govern­ of passing new legislation, the ship she'll ever be hostess to."' ony—in readiness to receive the number of cars on Bermuda's great structure. ment to allow car dealers to ac­ echoed Mr. Dunstan. and they all I cept old cars for new ones and. roads will be increased by 50 per stared pensively down at the Her movements at H.M. Dock­ to make sure the old car is sent ce"' within 12 months. sloop as tinv figures milled yard have since then included hur­ out of the country, the car dealer That is because many owners aroimd the ship, seraping her ricane precautions, deep sea trials, could be penalised for any in­ who will have been in possession bottom, painting and repairing | and effecting repairs on America | fringement up to £500 per ve­ of their present vehicles] for the the under-water valves and fit­ and West Indies Squadron ships hicle. required five years will sell them tings. including the flagship, ' H.M.S. j "The Government should make as second-hand cars which will Glasgow. arrangements' for a car dealer continue to be used in Bermuda FOR THE LAST TIME Like many other familiar Royal Gazette photographs to have a bonded warehouse or by different owners. H.M.S. Snipe was visiting the landmarks which may disap­ H.M.S. Snipe, sloop of the America & West Indies Sq jadron based in Bermuda, enters the 40-year-old Admiralty some area where the old cars ancient floating dock for the! pear with the closing of H.M. Floating Dock No. 5 for the fourth and last time. She is the last Royal,Navy ship to use the ancient structure which will could be stored and gathered to­ fourth and last time. Soon they Dockyard by next spring, "the gether to make an economical will go their respective ways—the old lady" will be missed in Ber­ be removed from Bermuda within the next few months. Top picture shews near frontal view of the sloop on the blocks. shipment to some foreign coun­ sloop back to the United Kingdom j muda. The lower picture shows the general scene as workmen paint and, repair the underwater portions of the vessel, try," Mr. Trott said. for refitting, and the dock, per­ ALLIES ON haps to some far distant countrv for further service or if a deal is not concluded, to a watery grave ALERT AS somewhere in the depths off Ber­ muda. REDS RALLY Mr. Dunstan told me that the The Memoirs Of The ke Of Windsor floating dock will be scuttled in nada that coming summer, it was UNCONSCIOUS REBELLION By JACK HENRY deep water if a buyer is • not BERLIN, May 27 (Reuter). found for her. THE SUNDAY ROYAL GAZETTE is decided that I should do so in 1 suppose that without quite S'^«« AFn.s w.s laid down August. The other Dominions understanding why, I was in un­ —Half a million Communist- at Birkenhead in 1910, and be­ privileged in this issue to begin publication were given to understand at the led Free German Youth with same time that I would visit them conscious rebellion against my gan her long career at Ports- inheritance. That is what comes, banners flying will march past I'tiu'h shortly after completion of the DUKE OF WINDSOR'S autobiography in turn as soon as practicable. I suppose, of sending an im­ she has been towed across vast How does a monarch prepare pressionable prince to school. East German President Wil­ expanses of o-ean, and has ac- which will cover in detail hitherto unknown his eldest son for the throne? I Fortunately for the sons of helm Pieck in the spectacularly ''«ommodated all kinds of vessels.