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Edmund Ironside
Built in 1905 by
Napier and Miller at Yoker, Scotland
Engines : Compound Diagonal by Scott of Greenock
Length : 130 feet
120 Gross Registered Tons
Served London County
Council's River Thames service from Greenwich to Hammersmith from
1905-1907
Sold in 1909 for service on the Thames for the City Steamboat
Company, until services ceased after the 1914 season
Sent to Mesopotamia on war service in 1916
Believed to have been raised after sinking in the River Tigris and used as a tug
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