Navy’s Hospital Job
King’s ships have done some strange jobs, but one involving the rebuilding of a hospital is surely unique. Queen Mary Hospital, on the slopes of the peak at Hongkong,, was badly damaged during the war. Its repair was urgent, but facilities were strictly limited; So the Navy, moved in H.M.S. Artifex, one of the floating workshops which took the place of island bases during the Pacific advances. Ship’s, artificers made such a good job of the hospital that their first-aid was solicited, and given, in rehabilitating the whole port. '
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 26, 29 November 1948, Page 8
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92Navy’s Hospital Job Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 26, 29 November 1948, Page 8
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