ZEEBRUGGE EXPLOIT
FAMOUS FERRY BOAT SALE FOR SCRAPPING [from our own correspondent] LONDON, May 7 Within a few miles of the spot where she achieved world fame, the ferrysteamer Royal Daffodil will be broken up shortly for scrap. She is one of the two ex-Mersey ferry boats which pushed H.M.S. Vindictive against the mole at Zeebrugge on April 20, 1918. The raid over, she limped back to Dover, her decks crowded with survivors. After the war she returned to the prosaic task of ferrying the citizens of Liverpool. Wallasey and Birkenhead across the Mersey, and her owners, the Wallasey Corporation, were granted permission to prefix Royal to her original name, Daffodil. t When her days of usefulness in that capacity were ended, she was sold to the New Medway Steam Packet Company, of Rochester, and took on a new lease of life as a pleasure steamer in the Thames Estuary. Now. 20 years after the exploit that made her famous, 6he has been 6old to the Belgian firm of Van Heyghen Frcres, who will break her up at Ghent.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23048, 27 May 1938, Page 5
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179ZEEBRUGGE EXPLOIT New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23048, 27 May 1938, Page 5
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