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Princess of Wales
Built in 1896
by Robert Craggs & Sons at Middlesbrough
Engines : Compound diagonal 21 and 39 in x 30 in by Jameson & McColl
Dimensions : 139.6 ft x 18.1 ft
163 Gross Registered Tons
Built for the Medway Steam Packet Co of Rochester, Kent
1917 Sold to the Admiralty and renamed Padua
1920 New Medway Steam Packet Co and renamed Princess of Wales
1926 Sailed on the Firth of Forth under charter to the Stanley Butler Steamship Company
1928 Scrapped
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