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Portsdown
Built in 1928 by
Caledon & Co at Dundee
Engines : Compound diagonal 27 and 51 in x 54 in by A&J Inglis of Glasgow
Dimensions : 190 ft x 25.1 ft
342 Gross registered Tons
Built for year-round
service on the Southern Railway's Portsmouth-Ryde railway connection
ferry service.
Not requisitioned for war service but involved in the Dunkirk
evacuations
Returned to Portsmouth to continue on the Ryde ferry service during
the remainder of the war
Mined and sunk off Southsea in September 1941
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