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| HMS Campania |
 
Dates: 1943 - 1955 HMS Campania, pennant number D48, was an escort aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy that saw service during World War II. After the war, the ship was used as a floating exhibition hall for the 1951 Festival of Britain and as the command ship for the 1952 Operation Hurricane, the test of the prototype British atomic bomb. She was built at Harland & Wolff shipyards in Belfast, Northern Ireland. When construction started in 1941 she was intended as a refrigerated cargo ship for transporting lamb and mutton from New Zealand, but was requisitioned by the British Government over during construction and completed and launched as an escort carrier, entering service in early 1944.
Forces Reunited Forum Posts involving HMS Campania
" Syd …I have only been on the Routemaster buses a couple of times so I don’t know them very well. They must have been pretty good to have lasted all this time, I believe some of them will be used as tourist buses, not sure though. My favourite was the trolley bus and I was sorry to see them ..."
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