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Thursday 30 June 2016

British fleet had her own theatre ship according to the Dutch newspaper De Sumatra Post dated 26 January 1918

An item referred to the Naval and Military Record reporting that a large theatre ship was added to the British fleet to entertain the crews of the ships. She was such large that she was able to accommodate the crew of a battleship of battle cruiser at the same time. The shows were given by the own personnel. If any ship was interested was a simple request of her commanding officer to the fleet command enough to get the theatre ship along side for a evening. The same item also mentioned that some large warships even seemed to have billiards on board for the sailors.