HMS Argenta | Republican Internment Prison Ship
HMS Argenta | Republican Internment Prison Ship
In an attempt to subvert the nationalist economic position, the Minister of Home Affairs, Dawson Bates, imposed martial law tactics to rend supremacy over both a rural and urban populous through violence, intimidation and economic sanctions. HMS Argenta (originally the American cargo ship S.S. Argenta) was a prison ship of the British Royal Navy. The two deck steamer was laid down in July 1917 by…
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