The fourth HMS Good Hope was a "stone ship", or land-based naval officer training base, located at Sea View, a few kilometers outside of Port Elizabeth, South Africa. It was situated in a newly built luxury hotel (The Seaview Hotel) and had a golf course, a tidal swimming pool and a tennis court. It was started in 1942 by the Royal Navy and was the only facility outside of the UK where men from all over the British Commonwealth could be trained for a commission in the
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. It was closed down in 1944.
There was also a South African
Loch-classfrigateSAS Good Hope, which was laid down as HMS Loch Boisdale in 1943 but renamed and transferred to the
South African Navy before completion in 1944.
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list of ships with the same or similar names. If an
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The fourth HMS Good Hope was a "stone ship", or land-based naval officer training base, located at Sea View, a few kilometers outside of Port Elizabeth, South Africa. It was situated in a newly built luxury hotel (The Seaview Hotel) and had a golf course, a tidal swimming pool and a tennis court. It was started in 1942 by the Royal Navy and was the only facility outside of the UK where men from all over the British Commonwealth could be trained for a commission in the
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. It was closed down in 1944.
There was also a South African
Loch-classfrigateSAS Good Hope, which was laid down as HMS Loch Boisdale in 1943 but renamed and transferred to the
South African Navy before completion in 1944.
This article includes a
list of ships with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.