Princess Margaret wearing a dark grey velvet coat with fur collar and a matching hat with scalloped edge, arrives at Newcastle-on-Tyne to name the passenger ship Maori (7,000 tons) yesterday.Fifteen thousand people were in the Vickers Armstrong naval shipyard to see the ship launched - a quarter of an hour earlier than was expected, because the Princess's visit ran ahead of schedule.Princess Margaret in dark grey velvet coat with fur collar and matching hat with scalloped edge, arrives at Newcastle-on-Tyne to name the 7000-ton passenger ship Maori, intended for the NZ inter-island trade. November 28, 1952. (Photo by Daily Mirror).
Princess Margaret wearing a dark grey velvet coat with fur collar and a matching hat with scalloped edge, arrives at Newcastle-on-Tyne to name the passenger ship Maori (7,000 tons) yesterday.Fifteen thousand people were in the Vickers Armstrong naval shipyard to see the ship launched - a quarter of an hour earlier than was expected, because the Princess's visit ran ahead of schedule.Princess Margaret in dark grey velvet coat with fur collar and matching hat with scalloped edge, arrives at Newcastle-on-Tyne to name the 7000-ton passenger ship Maori, intended for the NZ inter-island trade. November 28, 1952. (Photo by Daily Mirror).