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in Dundee and launched on 4 April 1905 by Miss Drummond. She was launched only 47 days after the keel was laid, without overtime being worked, and represented a record for the Gourlay shipyard. She was the first of a pair of ships ordered by the
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Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968).
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London and South Western Railway
Southern Railway
United Kingdom
Gourlay Brothers
gross register tons
London and South Western Railway
Gourlay Brothers
London and South Western Railway
Bertha
Southern Railway
"Launch this afternoon"
British Newspaper Archive
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London and South Western Railway
Ada
Alberta
Alice
Alliance
Alma
Ardena
Bertha
Brittany
Brittany
Caesarea
Cherbourg
Columbia
Courrier
Diana

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