24 APRIL 1971, Page 20

COMPETITION

No. 647: 0 splendid ship .

Set by Billy Bones: The impressive spectacle of huge oil tankers apparently queueing up to collide, run aground or just fall apart all along our coast surely calls for up-to-date additions to our store of poetical sea-pieces. Competitors are invited to comment on the phenomenon in up to sixteen lines of verse. Entries, marked 'Competition No. 647,' by 7 May.