Photograph: Dean Chalkley/The Observer ‘What you don’t get, George, is that they just love you because of who you are’: George Ezra. With her dark green hull, red boot-topping, yellow riband, white superstructure and black-banded red funnels, she was a magnificent looking ship, as trim and a neat a model as John Brown's ever turned out.

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Niagara concluded her maiden southbound voyage at Sydney on 7 July 1913, and all agreed it had been a perfect voyage with fine weather while Chief Engineer Dunlop told the press:"She has a lot of speed up her sleeve, but we only maintained our contract speed. It is no mere figure of speech to assert that the "All-Red" line, so often discussed, if it were realised in fact, in the form originally suggested by Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Sir Joseph Ward, would be one of the greatest of all our Imperial assets; and the Niagara marks a further advance toward the point at which this "dream of 'Empire" will become a reality. Much of her specification and design was the creation of one of the legends of New Zealand seamanship and nautical expertise, Capt.Listen to the Man" did not enter the Swiss Singles chart, but charted at number 67 on the Swiss Airplay chart.

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S. ship since Maheno , she had the perfect ocean liner "presence" in portrait, painting or photograph.In 1893, Australian shipowner James Huddart whose own line serving domestic ports dated to 1876, founded the Canadian-Australian Steamship Co. Blame It on Me'" did not enter the Ultratop 50, but peaked at number six on the Flemish Ultratip chart. On 13 May 1914 Niagara, sailed from Vancouver… "she took out 275 passengers and a big crowd assembled at Pier A to see her sail. always considered Niagarato be their "perfect ship," a true credit to her designers and her builders, and much loved by all who sailed in her. Once the instruments kick in, the rest of the song is so amazing that it feels a lot more immense than its relatively brief length would suggest, mainly due to the surprising use of guitar distortion.

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It's worth noting that at the time, she was, in fact, the largest passenger ship seen in Australasian waters, although overtaken before the year was out by Ceramic. The album has also charted in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland. Spectacular Rival concludes the album in an appropriately bombastic fashion, with Ezra singing in his most solemn baritone over a melancholy anthem (a sharp about-face from the chipper musicianship on display in most of the other tracks).Niagara was to take the May 1913 sailing from Sydney to Vancouver and Zealandia would, after her March sailing, revert to the Australian coast service. Dance All Over Me" did not enter the Swiss Singles chart, but charted at number 65 on the Swiss Airplay chart. But then it takes a ruminative shift – the album’s most striking song, I Went Hunting, beautifully addresses his past self-sabotage. It’s not a prelude to him becoming a tortured artist, he says – Ezra disdains artists longing to shed their pop fans and get serious – but the result of “a lot of self-reflection”.