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Jim Wilson
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Aug 05, 2010 09:43 AM
TRADITIONAL speech fodder at ship-naming ceremonies will generally include much heartfelt thanks, best wishes for everyone from the captain to the yard’s tea boy and much general singing of everyone’s praises.
They will also tend to include the phrase “may she always have at least a metre of water underneath her”.
It is a traditional phrase that will have gone largely unnoticed in speeches in the past but with the recent...
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