As soon as the royal apartments on the Repulse are ready furniture, including the piano, will be transferred from the royal yacht Victoria and Albert. The 25 tons of baggage are io be stored in one of the aeroplane hangars.
I wondered how all these changes would affect the fighting equipment, but I was assured at Portsmouth that this had not been impaired to any extent. One 4-inch gun had been dismounted to permit a sun lounge to be built above the King's dining room, which occupies the whole width of the ship. Construction of the extra cabins had necessited the removal of two other 4-inch guns but these, I was told, were in any event due for replacement by more modern guns in other positions. at the end of the term he took no notice of the boys' judgments, but gave them places according to his own ideas of their merit.
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