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Eagle
Built in 1898 by Gourlay Bros. at
Dundee
Dimensions : 265 ft x 30.1 ft
647 Gross Registered
Tons
Engines : Compound diagonal 37 and 70 in x 60 in
Built for the
General Steam Navigation Company originally on the North Kent
route.
Returned to the GSN after war service as a minesweeper as HMS Aiglon in July 1920
Withdrawn after the 1928 season and scrapped at Dordrecht in the Netherlands, with the hull surviving longer as a landing stage
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