St. James Infirmary Blues London's St. James Hospital, a religious foundation for the treatment of leprosy. His references list an article by Kenneth Lodewick. That article states, giving no reference or source for the idea, that the phrase "St. James Hospital" refers to a hospital of that name in London. There is some difficulty in this because the hospital in question closed in 1532 when Henry VIII acquired the land to build St James's Palace. Another possibility suggested by Higginbotham on the basis of his claim that the song "St. James Infirmary" dates at least from the early nineteenth century, is the Infirmary section
QSMV Dominion Monarch was completed and joined the Shaw Savill fleet, displacing "Dominion Monarch" as flagship. The two ships inaugurated a round the World service in alternate directions, extending the London – Cape Town – Australia – Wellington route "via" Fiji, French Polynesia, Panama and Curaçao back to London. On one occasion in the latter part of 1961 "Dominion Monarch" collided with the end of the pier in Sydney Harbour. The damage caused minor flooding in the crew quarters during a storm while crossing the Great Australian Bight. On 27 June 1961 Vickers-Armstrongs on the Tyne launched "Dominion Monarch"s replacement, the . "Dominion