PASSENGER PAINTERS
More than 100 men and women passengers helped to disguise a Union Castle liner that reached port safely from Cape Town. War was, declared after she had sailed. As the ship's stores included paint of all colours, it was decided to black-out all the portholes and, camouflage the hull, decks, and,superstructure in the multicoloured style of 1914. Passengers in the paint-squad leaned out of portholes to reach as far as possible along the hull; others had long-handled brushes, and so the work went on while the liner steadily ploughed her way home. Women passengers, besides taking their part in the painting, formed sewing parties to make sandbags. Other passengers reinforced the ship's look-out men to keep watch for U-boats.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 136, 6 December 1939, Page 12
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121PASSENGER PAINTERS Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 136, 6 December 1939, Page 12
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