HOSPITAL SHIP
'Brighton' c1940
By John Quinton
This is scanned from a postcard sized black and white reproduction of a painting. My grandmother, whose husband was a ship's carpenter at Newhaven, gave me the card many years ago and on the back she has written "Hospital Ship 1939-41". The name on the bow of the ship is "Brighton" and the painting has been signed "T Mahoney Chief Off". The Brighton V was sunk at Dieppe in 1940 but can someone confirm she was a hospital ship at the time?