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• n  ship for transporting troops

• Kay survived the torpedoing of the troopship Strathallen to arrive in North Africa a few weeks after the Allied landing.
• Yet the first troopship will still be completed this summer (five have been launched, are being fitted out) and "no other yard in the country will beat that record.
• Gradually the troopship drew away and at the end of the jetty that white-clad figure started Auld Lang Syne.