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When the bottle hit the Hull, the ship didn't move immediately but a blow on the Hull from a couple of sledge hammers sent vibrations to overcome the inertia and she launched. I was told that by the late Harry Donnelly a superintendent at the yard and Ian Blackwood who later became a director of Shell Esso.
