"The steam-yacht Midnight Sun, so well known to Norway tourists, has now completed her equipment as a hospital-ship, and has been re-christened The Princess of Wales.

The Red Cross Society has done its work very thoroughly, and the vessel is now an excellent example of what a hospital-ship should be. sOur illustration {not available] shows the wards, operating-room, dispensary, the officers' ward, and a group of attendant nurses. The officers' ward has been named the Princess Victoria Ward, and contains four swinging cots, each divided by curtains and fitted with its own electric light and bell. On the main-deck is the operating-room, with anæsthetic appliances and the Röntgen ray apparatus. In this room last week a skiagraph of the Princess of Wales's hand was taken. On the same deck is the Alexandra Ward, containing forty cots, eight of them swinging. On the orlop deck, beneath the Alexandra Ward, is the Princess Louise Ward, with fifty-two beds. Forward on the main-deck is the Princess Maud Ward, with thirty beds, intended mainly for medical cases. Beneath this is the convalescent ward. On the main-deck is the dispensary, which is superbly fitted up. Its bottles, mortars, and other implements of the mediciner's craft are carefully secured."

Illustrated London News, Page 824 of 9 Dec 1899