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PS Duchess of Edinburgh (1884)

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PS Duchess of Edinburgh was a passenger vessel built for the London and South Western Railway and London, Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1884.[1]

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The ship was built in steel by Aitken and Mansel and launched on 10 April 1884.[2] She was constructed for a joint venture between the London and South Western Railway and the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway. The engines were provided by J and J Thomson of Glasgow, with a pair of fixed diagonal surface condensing engines, the cylinders of which were 32 inches (81 cm) and 55 inches (140 cm) in diameter, the stroke being 5 feet (1.5 m). Steam was provided from four steel boilers which could produce 110 lbs per square inch.[3] The design of the vessel was overseen by Mr Stroudley, engineer of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway.

She went on a trial trip on 28 June 1884[4] on which she achieved a mean speed of 14.5 knots.

She was scrapped in 1910.

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