Re: Civilian Shipping

On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Thomas Barclay wrote:

> An interesting one might be a Falklands-in-space type scenario where a
> major power has impressed a cruise ship as a troop carrier (quite
> likely as big ass troop carriers probably are too expensive to keep

Passenger Liners were frequently build with government money on a 
contingency that if the nation went to war, the vessels would be pressed

into serverice by the military for Troop Ship duities. Most Liners were 
done so during WWI and WWII. 

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