FAMOUS FERRY-BOAT
EXPLOIT AT ZEEBRUGGE LONG CAREER ENDED (From Our Own Correspondent) (By Air Mail) LONDON, May 4. Within a few miles of the spot where she achieved world fame. Ihe ferry steamer 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. 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, she has been sold to the Belgian firm of Van Heyghen Freres, who will break her up at Ghent,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23516, 2 June 1938, Page 14
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