PS Caledonia (1934)
Clyde-built paddle steamer (1934 - 1980) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other ships with the same name, see Caledonia (ship).
PS Caledonia was a paddle steamer built in 1934. She principally provided an Upper Clyde ferry service, later moving to Ayr and then Craigendoran.[citation needed]
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Caledonia at Rothesay in 1960 | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Caledonia |
Owner | London, Midland & Scottish Railway |
Operator | Caledonian Steam Packet Company |
Builder | William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton[1] |
Yard number | 1266 |
Launched | 1 Feb 1934 |
Completed | March 1934 |
Out of service | 1939 |
Homeport | Glasgow |
Identification | 161981 |
History | |
United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Goatfell |
Commissioned | 1939 |
Decommissioned | 1946 |
Identification | J-125 |
History | |
United Kingdom | |
Name | Caledonia |
Operator | Caledonian Steam Packet Company |
In service | 1946 |
Out of service | 1969 |
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General characteristics | |
Type | Paddle steamer |
Tonnage | |
Length | 70.1 m (230 ft 0 in) |
Beam | 18.9 m (62 ft 0 in) |
Draft | 2.3 m (7 ft 7 in) |
Installed power | Horizontal steam triple expansion 3cyl 1800 ihp |
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During the Second World War, she served in the Royal Navy as a minesweeper and then an auxiliary anti-aircraft ship under the name HMS Goatfell.
Her final days were as a floating pub in London until destroyed by fire in 1980.[citation needed]