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Starboard view of the H.M.H.S. ST DAVID, in service as a First World War hospital ship converted from a G.W.R. ferry built 1906, by John Brown & Co., Clydebank for the new Fishguard to Rosslare ferry service. Stuck onto card mount. Unsigned and undated.
The S.S. ST DAVID was a triple-screw turbine steamer built in 1906 by John Brown & Co. Ltd., Clydesbank for the Great Western Railway. She was one of four vessels built between 1906 and 1908 for the GWR’s newly-inaugurated service from Fishguard to Rosslare. All four vessels saw service as hospital ships during the First World War, bringing wounded soldiers back from France. When a replacement St David was built in 1932, this vessel was re-named Rosslare, but she was withdrawn from service soon afterwards and cut up at Newport in 1933.
