They Had A Date
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In Samoa!
“T ONG Live the Date Line!”
JLi radioed the captain of a de stroyer which had just spent a whole day in Apia, Western Samoa, to the Acting High Com missioner, “We have never left a port so unwillingly. Your girls have something the others haven’t got.
Au revoir and thank you.”
The destroyer had been on her way from Auckland to Panama, and then found that no provision, in orders, had been made for the day gained in crossing the 180th degree of Longitude. High authority de cided the crew could have the day to themselves, and so they spent it in Apia. And apparently made of it a real date-line.
No, sir—it was not an American ship. It was the British destroyer HMS Consort —which apparently has developed American ways.