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Isle of Arran
Launched on May 14th 1892
by T.B. Seath and Co at Rutherglen
Engines : Simple diagonal, 52 x 60 in by King & Co
Dimensions : 210 ft x 24.1 ft
313 Gross Registered
Tons
Placed on Buchanan
Steamers' Arran run then to the Rothesay service with onward
cruises
Reboilered in 1911
Not requisitioned for war service until 1917, going to Portsmouth and
later to the River Seine in France
Sailed for Williamson-Buchanan from Glasgow until superceded in 1933
by TS Queen Mary
Sold to Thames owners the General Steam Navigation Company for London
Docks cruises
Scrapped at Barrow in 1936
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