PS ''Princess of Wales'' was a passenger vessel built for the

Great Eastern Railway The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia. The company was grouped into the London and North Eastern R ...

in 1878.

History

The ship was built by the

London and Glasgow Engineering and Iron Shipbuilding Company London and Glasgow Shipbuilding Company, also known as the London and Glasgow Engineering and Iron Shipbuilding Company, was a shipbuilding firm established in 1864 by a consortium of London bankers, including the Glasgow engineer James Rodger. Th ...

for the

and launched on 4 February 1878. She was launched by Miss Isabel Adams, daughter of the Locomotive Superintendent of the Great Eastern Railway Company, and named after the Princess of Wales, Alexandra of Denmark. She was placed on the

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to Rotterdam and

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route. She was broken up in 1896.

References

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