ZUM4914575: Feb. 02, 1954 -” Cutty Sark” leaves on last voyage.: the” cutty Sark” left Greenhithe this morning on the first stage of her last voyage which will eventually take the Cutty Sark to her permanent” home port” of Greenwich. The Cutty Sark was towed this morning to a berth in the East India Import Dock / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4914622: Feb. 02, 1954 - Finch and Howard sign-up for elimination contest. Winner meets Buxton for Light Heavyweight Title: Albert Finch (Croydon) and Arthur Howard (Islington) signed contracts this afternoon to meet at Empress Hall next Month. The winner of the contest is to meet Alex Buxton holder of the British Light Heavyweight title. The contest is promoted by Freddie Mills / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4914629: Feb. 02, 1954 - All is ready for the raising of the Empress of Canada: All is now ready for the Big Lift at Liverpool's Gladstone Dock, and the flood tide of March 6th is all that is needed to assist in raising the liner Empress of Canada from the bottom of the dock, where she has laid for over thirteen months / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4914636: Feb. 03, 1954 - The German-American exchange program celebrates a threefold anniversary today. Departing from the Rhein-Main airport, thirty two year old translator Hilda Wiehers from Essen was the 10,000th German to leave her home in order to spend a three-month study trip in the United States. It is the 500th flight to bring a study group to the USA, with the first being five years ago today. Pictured: Radiant with joy, Ms. Wiehers flings her arms around flight captain Pretsch's neck when he greets her before boarding the plane / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4914606: Feb. 02, 1954 - German's newest liner calls at Southampton on Maiden Voyage.: The new 10,000 ton German liner” Schwabenstin” arrived at Southampton today at the start of her maiden voyage. The vessel is the first of six up-to-date liners being constructed for the Hamburg America Line - for the service to the Far east. She carries 90 first class passengers / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4914560: Feb. 02, 1954 - New liner has Maiden Voyage this Month.: The new P and O liner Arcadia, 28,000 tons which was built by John Brown's at Clydebank, is due to leave the port of London on her maiden voyage to Australia on February 22. She will carry 670 first class passengers and 735 tourist class passengers / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4914959: Feb. 06, 1954 - That'll definitely get the ball rolling! These five young German deserters of the French Foreign Legion come fresh from the Indochina warzone to tell us what it's really like. Indeed, the German men have shutter-inducing things to report. This is a very delicate situation for Bonn: how to deal with France's attempts to hush up the such affairs. Although the men certainly had the purpose of informing young Germans of just what went on there, the poor devils were immediately taken into custody by detectives after their flight from Bangkok. Pictured: At their arrival in Hamburg: Horst Pethorius, Erik Bertmeyer, Hugo Schmidt, Erwin Hagemeidl, and Gunther Kleinke / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4914928: Feb. 06, 1954 - Canadian Premier Lunches with Sir Winston Churchill: British Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill with his guests, Canadian Prime Minister Mr.Louis St. Laurent, and members of his family at No. 10, Downing Street, London today. (Left to Right): Mr. Jean Paul St.Laurent, son of the Canadian Premier; Mrs. Hugh O'Donnell, daughter of Mr. Louis St. Laurent; Sir Winston Churchill; Lady Churchill and Mr: Louis St. Laurent. The Canadian Premier is in London on a world tour to meet leaders in the search for an approach to peace / Bridgeman Images