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This is the 75ft-long "New Prince Of Wales I" owned by Messrs. A.E.Brand & W.H.Wilson, T/as the Southend Motor Navigation Co. Built by the local Boatbuilders Hayward in the early 1920's, and powered by twin 75hp. Parsons petrol/paraffin engines. A "Dunkirk little ship", listed in Collier's 1961 book "The sands of Dunkirk", with subsequent War service listed in ADM208/3 as an inshore Minesweeper in the London Flotilla of the RN's Nore Division.If any reader has more information about this little vessel, please contact the writer on '
