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#FerryNuclear - In the event of a nuclear war between the West and Soviet Union, The Herald writes senior British Government officials would have survived on ships specially built by Caledonian MacBrayne as 'floating nuclear bunkers'.
Afloat adds that among the ferries, Columba (now cruiseship Hebridean Princess) would be hidden along the Scottish coast and in lochs. There is also speculation that the Royal Family (in recent years chartered the former Columba) would have been evacuated to one of these CalMac survival ships to last out the war.
The revelations about Scotland's role after an atomic war appear in top secret documents which have just been declassified following Freedom on Information requests from Cold War researcher Mike Kenner.
