As a Armed Merchant Cruiser 1940' but experience soon showed that the employment of large liners as Armed Merchant Cruisers was both unsatisfactory and also uneconomical' the size of these ships made too bigger target' the Pretoria Castle was purchased by the Admiralty and after spending months in the ship yards she emerged in July 1943 unrecognisable, as a Aircraft carrier, my father sailed on this ship.
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