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Columba

	GUCC Fleet No.	29
	Class	Star
	Original Type:	Motor
	Known As	Small Woolwich
	Date Built	18.12.35
	Hull Construction	Steel Composite
	Registered	BREN 573
	Intended Paring	269

History

sold to John Knill had an extended cabin fitted then sold to Barlows when Knill's finished carrying 1/55. fs with extended cabin 8/88. At Rick 98.

Factoids

No. 16 - Ship 153 The ship in Rudyard Kipling's poem "McAndrew's Hymn" was inspired by the Doric; in a letter to illustrator Howard Pyle he wrote "-but it may help you a little to know that the ship “McAndrew’s Hymn” belongs to is the old Doric, once an Atlantic White Star I think, and now a Shaw, Savill, Albion boat running to New Zealand via the Cape of Good Hope and home round the horn

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