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PS Killingholme (1912)

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of Hull and launched on 23 February 1912 by Mrs Boothby, wife of Captain Boothby. She was one of an order of two new ships, the other being
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she was a seaplane carrier for the Royal Navy, in which capacity she was struck by a torpedo and lost one of her paddles.
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She was withdrawn from regular service in 1934, but retained for excursions and as a spare ferry.
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she was again requisitioned and used as a barrage balloon depot ship in the Humber.
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Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968).
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Index

Great Central Railway
London and North Eastern Railway
United Kingdom
Humber Ferry
Earle's Shipbuilding
DWT
gross register tons
Great Central Railway
Earle's Shipbuilding
Brocklesby
New Holland to Hull ferry service
King George V
Queen Mary
King George Dock in Immingham
First World War
Second World War






"Packet Boats and Paddle Steamers"
"New G.C.R. Ferry Steamer"
British Newspaper Archive
"Paddle Steamer Killingholme"
"The Royal Visit to Immingham"
British Newspaper Archive
"A Hull Ferryboat at its last base"
British Newspaper Archive

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