An item referred to the U.S.R. dated 11 August 1938 reporting that the British Admiralty was corrected by the Committee of Public Accounts for exceeding budgets. Instead of 150.000 pound sterling was finally 612,056 pound sterling expended for buying the Majestic. As the HMS Caledonia (1) was used as training ship for young sailors. Converting a steam trawler into a tender for the M.T.B. flotilla was estimated to be 27.000 pound sterling, actually 50.697 pound sterling .
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1. Laid down by Blohm&Voss, Hamburg, Germany as the ss Bismarck in 1913, handed over to the United Kingdom to compensate the HMHS Britannic in 1920, renamed Majestic operated by the White Star Line later Cunard White Star Line, sold to be broken up on 15 May 1936, acquired by the Royal Navy, converted into the Boy‘s and Articifers’ training ship HMS Caledonia, burned out on 29 September 1939 and after she was refloated finally broken up in 1943.
Note
1. Laid down by Blohm&Voss, Hamburg, Germany as the ss Bismarck in 1913, handed over to the United Kingdom to compensate the HMHS Britannic in 1920, renamed Majestic operated by the White Star Line later Cunard White Star Line, sold to be broken up on 15 May 1936, acquired by the Royal Navy, converted into the Boy‘s and Articifers’ training ship HMS Caledonia, burned out on 29 September 1939 and after she was refloated finally broken up in 1943.
