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The 90ton, Twin Screw Motor Vessel "New Prince of Wales" of the Southend Motor Navigation Co, 107ft loa. x 25ft beam, x 2'9" draft. powered by a handed pair of 75 shp. Parsons' petrol-paraffin engines. Built at Alec Fowler's Mariners Yard, Schoolhouse Rythe, Bosham, W. Sussex, during 1922-23, and Launched July, 1923 for service at Southend . BoT-"Steam 6" Licensed to carry 375 passengers. Have a look at the website under Southend excursion boats for better pictures. While dead in the water through another recurring engine stoppage due to fuel contamination caused by the RN topping-of her paraffin fuel tanks with petrol, she was sunk at Dunkirk in shallow water by a near-miss which stove-in her planking. Crew of RN Reservists saved, by 56ft MV Triton. '
