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Opened in July 1920 and designed by Albert Selmar Conrad, the four-storeyed Grosvenor with its 368 bedrooms (each with a wash basin) and marble façade rivalled the South Australian Hotel.
Marquis of Salisbury is sold to the British Royal Navy, renamed HMS Swallow, and resumes its prior function as a packet vessel