British Navy gets rid of tradition of Chinese laundrymen on ships.

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23 Oct 23

JJ Adams

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I had no idea this was a thing, I thought it was an Onion article at first:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/navy-ends-tradition-chinese-laundrymen-133143001.html

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23 Oct 23

@jj-adams said
I had no idea this was a thing, I thought it was an Onion article at first:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/navy-ends-tradition-chinese-laundrymen-133143001.html

Yeah they are traditionally signed on the Royal Fleet Auxiliary ( RFAs ) ships doing ancillary jobs like laundry I believe they took a big hit during the Falkland War wth Argentina

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