An item dated London 6 January reported that the 20,000 Trans Atlantic passenger ship Scynthia was taken out of service to be rebuilt as a troop transport the first one since the war [Ron: the First World War I presume]. She was probably to depart that week with troops, guns, tanks and other war stores towards Alexandria. In the near future were more British Trans Atlantic steamships to rebuild as transports.
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1. The website http://www.cunard.co.uk/About-Cunard/Cunard-Heritage/The-Fleet/Scythia-II/ mentioned a Scythia launched for the Cunard Line on 23 March 1920 by Mrs. S. Maxwell at the shipyard of Vickers Limited at Barrow, England with a gross tonnage of 19,730 tons and as dimensions 183,08 x 22,49 metres or 66.7 x 73.8 feet and with a service speed of 16 knots and was in 1939 purchased by the British government to be troop transport. For this purposed she was converted at Glasgow. During he Second World she was extensively used as troop transport and even survived a torpedo hit. In 1958 broken up. The Dutch newspaper was dated in 1936 so I’m not certain of the identification.
Note
1. The website http://www.cunard.co.uk/About-Cunard/Cunard-Heritage/The-Fleet/Scythia-II/ mentioned a Scythia launched for the Cunard Line on 23 March 1920 by Mrs. S. Maxwell at the shipyard of Vickers Limited at Barrow, England with a gross tonnage of 19,730 tons and as dimensions 183,08 x 22,49 metres or 66.7 x 73.8 feet and with a service speed of 16 knots and was in 1939 purchased by the British government to be troop transport. For this purposed she was converted at Glasgow. During he Second World she was extensively used as troop transport and even survived a torpedo hit. In 1958 broken up. The Dutch newspaper was dated in 1936 so I’m not certain of the identification.
