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Name: PRINCESS OF WALES
Type: Passenger Ship
Launched: 04/12/1869
Completed: 02/1870
Builder: Andrew Leslie & Co
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 121
Dimensions: 949grt, 497nrt, 260.0 x 30.2 x 15.6ft
Engines: Osc 2cyl (63 & 63 x 78ins), 300nhp; (1883: 2 x C2cyl (32 & 56 x 78ins), 280nhp)
Engines by: R Stephenson & Co, Newcastle; (1883: Rankin & Blackmore)
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 62959
History:
14/02/1870 Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Co & London & North-Western Railway Co, Fleetwood
1880 Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Co, Fleetwood
1896 Naval Construction & Armament Co, Barrow
05/1896 Broken up
Comments: Operated on the Fleetwood to Belfast service
05/1896: Broken up at Barrow-in-Furness


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