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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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