Travelling to England with his wife and daughter in the Norwegian freighter Halibut, which ran into rough seas, [Sir Robert Menzies] sent this cable to relatives:

At sea off Perth: Exodus X, 23.

In the Bible they found these words:

They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days.

— Ray Robinson, ed., The Wit of Sir Robert Menzies, 1966