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Hospital ship role

I believe the following paragraph in the section on Construction is unnecessarily aggressive: "Britannia it was claimed (as justification for the cost) was designed to be converted into a hospital ship in time of war, however when the need came in the Falklands War this capability was exposed as being spurious as HMY Britannia, unique among the Royal Navy's fleet, required special fuel oil (unique to her) and had only a 200-bed capacity. Instead, the 16,907-gross-register-ton (47,880 m3) P&O liner SS Uganda, which was in the Mediterranean on an educational cruise with a thousand schoolchildren on board, was requisitioned, and modified to become a hospital ship." The fact that by 1982 most RN ships were running on different fuel was a result of HMYs age, not a sign the justification was "spurious". Also, the 200-bed capacity wasn't a problem, and was greater than the replacement ship 125.236.232.27 (talk) 06:15, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]