LADY NELSON
CANADA’S FIRST HOSPITAL SHIP. FORMER LUXURY CRUISER. OTTAWA, April 16. Canada’s first hospital ship, the Lady Nelson, is ready for the sea. Before the war the Lady Nelson was a Canadian National Steamships luxury cruiser plying between Canada and the West Indies. About a year ago she herself was a war casualty, for, while docked at St. Lucia in the Windward Islands, she was torpedoed and sank. For a time she was given up for lost. But salvage operations raised her. She was rebuilt, fitted with the most modern surgical equipment available and shortly will embark upon her new career of bringing home sick and wounded from Canada’s forces overseas. She will accommodate five hundred patients of whom two hundred will be convalescents and the remainder bedpatients. The top deck is taken up with three large medical wards each accommodating forty to fifty patients. The next deck is for surgical wards. Diet kitchens are attached' to prepare special food. The Lady Nelson carries a hospital staff of seventy.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 April 1943, Page 6
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