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ROYAL EAGLE (1932)
Service dates: 1930-1953
Official number: 162702
Shipping lines: GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Paddle Steamer.
Career
- 24.02.1932
- Launched by Lady Ritchie, wife of the then Chairman of the Port of London Authority.
- 19.04.1932
- Completed as Royal Eagle for the General Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
- 14.05.1932
- Maiden sailing.
- 09.1939
- Involved in the evacuation of London children to Felixstowe, Lowestoft and Yarmouth.
- 1940
- Made three trips to Dunkirk and brought back some 3,000 soldiers. She spent the rest of the War as an anti-aircraft vessel in the Thames estuary.
- 1946
- She was refitted for peacetime service at General Steam Navigation Company’s Deptford workshops.
- 08.06.1946
- Resumed her Kent Coast service.
- 08.1950
- Laid up in the Medway.
- 12.1953
- Sold to British Iron & Steel Corporation for breaking up.
- 08.01.1954
- Arrived at Grays to be broken up by T W Wards & Co Ltd.