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 | | And what ships - catamarans, hovercraft, warships - we visited Portsmouth among other places, so it was a bit like seeing old friends again, among them the Tyne-built Ark Royal, and also HMS Richmond, the last (until now) warship built by Swan Hunter's and recently returned from service in the Gulf. |
 | | There was even a huge and sleek, fl-hulled liner of the Holland-America Line, and - especially fascinating - a First World War Monitor, M33, lying in the Historic Dockyard, which is to undergo restoration. |
 | | Talking of ships, there has been a lot of correspondence to catch up with, among it, a letter from a reader who does not give her name but who was interested in a recent mention of how the pay of war-time merchant seamen was stopped the minute their ships were sunk. |
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