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Princess May
Built in 1893 by
Barclay, Curle & Co, Clydeholm
Engines : Compound diagonal
Dimensions : 160 ft x 21.6 ft
260 Gross Registered
Tons
Operated cruises on
the Sussex coast for the
Brighton, Worthing and South Coast Steamboat
Company
Purchased by P and A Campbell after the 1901 season
Ran between Cardiff and Weston at the beginning of 1902, but moved to
the Bournemouth station
Attended the Spithead Royal Naval Review of 1902
Sold later in that year to the Societa di Navigazione a Vapore della Penisola Sorrentina for service in the Bay of
Naples as Principessa Jolanda
In
1906 after liquidation of the company, the ship was sold to the two
leading shareholders of the company (including Gioacchino Lauro)
Sold in 1906 to Gioacchino Lauro and Giovanni Pollio who had been major shareholders in the Sorrentina company
Sold in September 1907 to the Naples-based Societa Industriale e Commerciale Meridionale (who had earlier bought Principessa Mafalda)
Sold in 1909 to Serafina Vassilieva Vissarionovna at Odessa, Russian Empire
Renamed Vassilief
Possibly in use until 1930
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