"During the Second World War, it was taken over by the Admiralty and renamed HMS Birnbeck. It may have been unable to set sail, but HMS Birnbeck played a key role in the war as a research station for the Directorate of Miscellaneous Weapons Development, where it worked on evolutions of the “bouncing bomb” from the Dambusters raid."
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