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In addition, in 1964 the [[Secretary of State for Scotland]] ordered three ships - [[MV Hebrides (1964)|MV ''Hebrides'']], [[MV Clansman (1964)|MV ''Clansman'']] and [[MV Hebridean Princess|RMS ''Columba'']] - which were chartered to [[David MacBrayne Ltd]] as car ferries but could be converted to floating nuclear bunkers in a very short time. They had heavy steel doors to seal the car deck, air tight external windows and doors, decontamination rooms with showers and external sprinklers to wash away fallout. One or more of these ships would have accompanied RFA ''Engadine'' or HMY ''Britannia'' from Oban or [[Mallaig]].<ref name="herald"/>
The Corsham bunker, given the new codename TURNSTILE from 1963 and CHANTICLEER from 1970, would play an important part in the lead up to war but ceased to have a CGWHQ role other than as a possible aggregation point for PYTHON groups some time after an attack.<ref name="Hennessy">{{cite book|title=The Secret State: Preparing For The Worst 1945 - 2010|page=141|author=Peter Hennessy|publisher=Penguin|year=2014|isbn=0141979208}}</ref>
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