TO BE BROKEN UP.
0 m '■ FERRY-BOAT FAMOUS IN WAR (From "The Post's" B«present*tl»«.) >'• LONDON, May 4. Within a few miles of the spo4 where she achieved world fame, th« 0 ferry-steamer Royal Daffodil will b« broken up shortly for scrap. She !• , one of the two ex-Mersey rsrry-boats which pushed H.M.S. Vindictive agalnrt 4 the Mole at. Zeebrugge on April 2«V 1918. The raid over, she limped back t© Dover, her decks crowded «ui> vivors. After the war she returned to the prosaic task of ferrying the citfc zens of Liverpool, Wallasey, tad Birkenhead across the Mersey, and he* owners, the Wallasey Corporation* 5 were granted permission to prefix ' Royal to her original name, Daffodil. When her days of usefulness in that « capacity were ended she was sold to the New Medway Steam Packet Com* ; pany, of Rochester, and took on a new lease of life as a pleasure steamer Mk 3 the Thames Estuary. 1 Now, twenty years after the Wljott that made her famous, she has bMA sold to the Belgian firm of VM Heyghen Freres, who will break MC. up at Ghent*
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 131, 6 June 1938, Page 12
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185TO BE BROKEN UP. Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 131, 6 June 1938, Page 12
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