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ROYAL LADY (1938)
Service dates: 1947-1957
Official number: 145671
Shipping lines: GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Ferry.
Career
- 04.04.1938
- Launched.
- 06.1938
- Completed as New Royal Lady for T Round & Sons, Scarborough.
- 04.1947
- Sold to J Hall, Kirkcaldy, and renamed Royal Lady.
- 04.10.1947
- Acquired by the General Steam Navigation Company.
- 21.05.1948
- Renamed Crested Eagle.
- 31.10.1957
- Sold to Magro Bros, Malta, and renamed Imperial Eagle.
- 1995
- Laid up in Marsa Creek.
- 1998
- Sunk with her bow resting on the bottom.
- 1999
- Salvaged and then sunk as an artificial reef off St Paul’s Bay.