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Christopher Wren
Built in 1905 by
Rennie at Greenwich, as subcontractor to J I Thornycroft of
Southampton
Engines : Compound Diagonal by Scott of Greenock
Length : 130 feet
120 Gross Registered Tonnes
Served London County
Council's River Thames service from Greenwich to Hammersmith from
1905-1907
Sold in 1909 to the City Steamboat Company, serving on the Thames
until the First World War in late 1914
Sent to Mesopotamia in 1916 on war service with the Royal Indian Marine
From 1920 with the Euphrates & Tigris Steam Navigation Co in Mesopotamia (Iraq)
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