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PS
Brighton Queen (ex - Gwalia, ex - Lady Moyra, 1905)
As Lady Moyra, at Hotwells, Bristol in a photo kindly supplied by Howard
Ahmun
Built in 1905 by John Brown at
Clydebank
Engines : Compound diagonal
Dimensions : 245 ft x 29 ft
519 Gross Registered
Tonnes
Built for the Barry
Railway Company in 1905 as PS Gwalia
Sold to the Furness Railway Company in 1910 and renamed PS Lady
Moyra
Used as a minesweeper in World War I
Sold after the war to the Tucker "Yellow Funnel Fleet", returning to
the Bristol Channel
Sailed for three seasons for the Tucker operation before its
financial failure
Purchased by P and A Campbell at auction in July 1922
Ran for the White Funnel fleet from 1923, being stationed on the
South Coast from 1933, renamed PS Brighton Queen
Sank at Dunkirk in 1940 on her second trip to evacuate troops back to
the UK
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