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PS Valais 
Operating Area : Lake Geneva, Switzerland
valais at geneva in 2000.jpg
Above : PS Valais at Geneva in 2000. Photo by Gordon Stewart
Built 1913 by Sulzer Brothers at Winterthur, Switzerland
Engines: Compound Diagonal

Taken out of service in 1962
With her engines removed, she was moored at the Jardin des Anglais at Geneva as a restaurant ship and office for the CGN.
Replaced PS France (1886-1932) in this role
Left Geneva for the final time on 8th September 2003 for dismantling at Ouchy, which was completed in mid-November of the same year.

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