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PS Duchess of Fife (1899)

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History
NamePS Duchess of Fife
OperatorLondon and South Western Railway and London, Brighton and South Coast Railway
Port of registryUnited Kingdom
BuilderClydebank Engineering and Shipbuilding Company
Yard number350
Launched28 April 1899
Out of service1929
FateScrapped 1929
General characteristics
Tonnage443 gross register tons (GRT)
Length215 feet (66 m)
Beam26.1 feet (8.0 m)
Draught9.5 feet (2.9 m)

PS Duchess of Fife was a passenger vessel built for the London and South Western Railway and London, Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1899.[1]

History

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HMS Invincible anchored at Spithead, with on her port broadside the passenger paddle steamer Duchess of Fife

The ship was built by the Clydebank Engineering and Shipbuilding Company and launched on 28 April 1899[2] by Miss Brown, daughter of the Marine Superintendent of the railway companies. She was constructed for a joint venture between the London and South Western Railway and the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway for the passenger trade to the Isle of Wight.

She was taken over in 1923 by the Southern Railway. She was withdrawn in 1928 and sold for breaking by G.B. Pas and Sons in Bolnes in 1929.

References

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  1. ^ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
  2. ^ "Launches and Trial Trips". Glasgow Herald. England. 29 April 1899. Retrieved 14 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.