HIS MAJESTY'S SHIPS HAD HUMBLE JOBS
There is more to Royal Navy anguish over the coal shortage | than the numiliation of having Isubmarines produce' power for jnaval dockyards. i At Portsmouth, three proud ships jof the Navy are tied up. TwO — His Majesty's battleships Ramillies and ! Malaya — are accommodation hulks (for a store station dealing with mining and torpedoes. ! A third ■ gallant ship, His Majesty's 5700-ton cruiser Royalist. has joined them— as an electric power station. The 31,000-ton Malaya might not last long, even in her present humble occupation. She was scheduled for the scrap-heap or for target practice.
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Chronicle (Levin), 14 February 1947, Page 2
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