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Sunday 29 May 2016

British steamship HMS Caledonia became training ship at Rosyth, Scotland according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1937 no. 4

An item referred to the magazine R.U.S.I dated May 1937 that the HMS Caledonia (the former steamship Majestic) was to be used at Rosyth, Scotland as accommodation for 2.000 young sailors to be trained there.(1)

Note
1. Purchased in 1936, commissioned in 1937, lost due to a fire on 29 September 1939, salvaged and broken up in 1943. The former German steamship Bismarck laid down at Blohm&Voss, Hamburg, Germany in 1913, launched on 20 June 1914, handed over to the United Kingdom in 1920 and became the RMS Majestic, renamed Caledonia on 23 April 1937.