After the war, the ship was again refitted and resumed passenger service until 1967 when it was done in by passenger airlines.
The 2, 200-passenger liner also was meant to double as a troop transport ship if war broke out.
He rejoined the family business after the war and acquired his first ship in the 1950s.
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It brought down more aircraft than any other ship during the war but three bombs hit the Coventry and two of them exploded.
But before her most recent reincarnation as a divers' paradise, the historic vessel cruised the waves as a U.S. transport ship during World War II.
During World War II, these tracks linked thousands of shaven grunts and other instruments of war to the ports that would ship them out to the front lines.
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The families of heroic sailors who died when their ship came under German attack in World War II have gathered to remember them 70 years on.
The ship, which is an official maritime war grave, is carefully protected by the local council, but hundreds of other vessels dotted round the UK coastline do not enjoy the same protection.
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Members of the ship will lay a wreath at the Fowey War Memorial on Remembrance Sunday in honour of the fallen.
Gibbs, a naval architect responsible for nearly 5, 500 Navy vessels that helped win World War II, put everything he had into his ultimate ship.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says brown tree snakes have wiped out most of Guam's native populations of forest birds since being accidentally introduced to the island after World War II, probably after they stowed away on a ship or plane from their native range in Australia, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
The ship was refitted at Chatham Dockyard and served out the war as a training vessel.
From that third country, Whitman said, the containers were loaded onto the SS Gopher State, a U.S.-owned crane ship normally used to haul equipment in and out of war zones.
He saw the ship as a metaphor for the nation's post-war strength, pride and accomplishment.
Others claim they heard metal crushing and children crying, related to an accident during the war when the RMS Queen Mary accidentally rammed into and split an allied ship in its path, the HMS Curacoa, off the Irish coast, killing 239 people.
Around 80% of the ship is original and it has what are thought to be the only surviving in-situ World War I turbines in the world.
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