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Name
Official number
Flag
IMO
ST DAVID
123675
GBR
Year built
Date launched
Date completed
1906
25/01/1906
06/1906
Vessel type
Vessel description
Passenger Ferry
Steel Screw Steamer 2 Masts
Builder
Yard
Yard no
John Brown & Co Ltd., Clydebank
Clydebank
370
Tonnage
Length
Breadth
Depth
Draft
2387 grt / 658 nrt /
350.8 ft
41.1 ft
24.3 ft
Engine builder
John Brown & Co Ltd., Clydebank
Engine detail
Triple turbines (high pressure centre, low pressure wings) 9500shp 20kn (max 24kn) 3-screw
1925 re-engined with double reduction turbines 8000bhp 22½kn
First owner
First port of register
Registration date
Fishguard & Rosslare Railway & Harbour Co, London
London
Other names
1932 ROSSLARE
Subsequent owner and registration history
Vessel history
First of four sisters (with ST PATRICK, ST ANDREW and the Cammell Laird-built ST GEORGE)
8/1914-16/1/1919 requisitioned as a hospital ship
Remarks
passengers: 563 1st, 437 3rd.
190x 2529g 771n; 1914 2479g 1008n; 1919 2457g 1006n.
End year
Fate / Status
1933
Broken Up
Disposal Detail
Broken up at Newport Mon.
St David
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HMHS St David
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