With the festival over , the ship was refitted in Birkenhead for a very different role , as the command ship for Operation Hurricane , the test of the first British atomic bomb on the Monte Bello Islands off western Australia . The refit saw the exhibition replaced by workshops , laboratories , offices and cabins , plus a desalination plant since the Monte Bello Islands did not have any indigenous fresh water source to supply the 1500 personnel who would take part in the test
Operation Hurricane
Operation Hurricane
HMS Campania (D48)