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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.


Ship technical details (PDF)