LUXURY LINER
CONVERTED INTO MERCHANT CRUISER ADDITION TO BRITISH NAVY. UNIT IN NEW SQUADRON. ' (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 14. The most recent addition to the British Navy is a 15.000-ton luxury liner which is being converted as an armed merchant cruiser ready to deal with enemy raiders above or below the sea s surface. The spacious first-class dining saloon has been split into two to form a wardroom and a gunroom. Shell racks stand where the deck quoit court is still marked out and the forward and aft cargo holds have been converted into ammunition magazines. She is only one of a number of big merchant vessels fitted out as armed merchant cruisers to form-a new defensive squadron for the Royal Navy. At the same time, a number of smaller craft are being fitted with guns, for purely defensive measures. In conformity with international law they have the guns aft, so that they cannot fire from an attacking position.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 October 1939, Page 5
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160LUXURY LINER Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 October 1939, Page 5
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