The River Mersey cadet ship H.M.S. Conway, one of the training ships of the Royal Navy, being towed down the river from her moorings in Rock Ferry, en route to No. 1 graving dock at Birkenhead to be overhauled and refilled. It is intended to resheath the bottom with copper, and when the work is completed it will, give the Conway a new lease of life extending to at least another fifty years.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 42, 20 February 1939, Page 12
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73The River Mersey cadet ship H.M.S. Conway, one of the training ships of the Royal Navy, being towed down the river from her moorings in Rock Ferry, en route to No. 1 graving dock at Birkenhead to be overhauled and refilled. It is intended to resheath the bottom with copper, and when the work is completed it will, give the Conway a new lease of life extending to at least another fifty years. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 42, 20 February 1939, Page 12
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