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ps WALTON BELLE
built by William Denny & Brothers Dumbarton,
Yard No 564
Last Name: PRIDE OF DEVON (1945)
Previous Names: ESSEX QUEEN (1925)
Propulsion: steam, triple expansion diagonal - 20.5, 30 and 43 inches by 60 inches
Launched: Monday, 05/04/1897
Built: 1897
Ship Type: Paddle Steamer
Tonnage: 465 grt
Length: 230 feet
Breadth: 26 feet
Owner History:
Belle Steamers Limited
Admiralty (1915)
Kingsman (1921)
PSM Syndicate (1922)
New Medway Steam Packet Co (1925)
Admiralty (1939)
South Western S.N.Co (1945)
Status: Arrived for Scrapping - 19/03/1951
Web site: http://freespace.virgin.net/tom.lee/waltonimg.htm
Remarks: A vessel with a lot of history! Saw service as a minesweeper, hospital vessel and a troop transport, going as far as the White Sea during WW1. In the twenties she operated out of Chatham and Sheerness. Converted to oil burning in 1930. Returned to Great Yarmouth routes in 1937. Hospital ship in the Thames in Second World War. Cruises from Torquay in 1947 onwards, but due to her poor condition was refused passenger certificate in 1949. After lay
up at Southampton she was broken up at Grays in 1951
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Previous update by Bruce Biddulph
Last updated: by George Robinson from the original records by Stuart Cameron
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