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Jubilee Queen (ex - Clacton Queen, ex - Duchess of
Kent)
Built in 1897 by Day, Summers & Co at Southampton
Length 195.4 ft 399 GRT
Engines : Compound diagonal 32 and 59 in x 60 in 225 NHP
Built as
Duchess of Kent to maintain railway connections from Portsmouth to
Ryde on the Isle of Wight for the LSWR / LBSCR
Purchased by the New Medway Steam Packet Company at the end of 1933
and renamed Clacton Queen
After one season on the Thames Estuary, she was sold for cruising
between Liverpool and Blackpool for Mersey & Blackpool Steamship Co and named Jubilee Queen
Scrapped in 1937
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