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Photograph album; Volume II, P&A Campbell vessels, names C to E, with technical specifications and histories.

CAMBRIA - (ex CAMBRIDGE 1915-1919, ex PLINLIMMON 1939-1945), 1895-1946. Newspaper extracts, no date and photocopy of special excursion ticket to Cherboug no date. 61 photographs.

CARDIFF QUEEN - 1947 (1968). Details taken from 1959 passenger certificate. White Funnel Fleet advertising flag for CARDIFF QUEEN, no date. Magazine extract "Holiday Activities", 1960. Newspaper extracts, 1963 and 1967. Sale details given by A.M.C. McGinnity & Partners, (Weymouth Shipbrokers), (1968). 63 Photographs.

DEVONIA - 1905-1940. Magazine extract "History of the Second World War - Dunkirk", no date. 15 photographs.

DUTCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE - 1891-1934 newspaper extract, 1959. 12 photographs.

GLENAVON - 1912-1944, 29 photographs.

GLEN GOWER - (ex HMS GLENMORE 1941-1945), 1922-1960. Newspaper extract, 1960, and photograph of Captain Harries, (1954-1955). 82 photographs.

GLEN ROSA - 1877-1921 21 photographs.

P.S. CAMBRIA was renamed HMS Cambridge during the course of World War I and HMS Plinlimmon during World War II. (1895-1946).

CARDIFF QUEEN. Built 1947 by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Govan, the last paddle steamer to be built for P & A Campbell Ltd. 1966 – Laid up at Cardiff Docks, and put on the sales list. 1968 – Sold to Critchcraft Ltd., Chepstow. It was intended to use her as a floating nightclub at Newport, and was moored at Mill Parade Wharf in February. The tidal range, however, proved obstructive, and after an expensive recovery operation, the vessel was sold to John Cashmore Ltd in the April, to be broken up further upstream. (Source: “Bristol Channel Pleasure Steamers” - Robert Wall)

The P.S. DEVONIA was launched on 22 March 1905 by John Brown at Clydebank. Engines - Compound diagonal 34.5 and 71 in x 60 in. Dimensions : 245 ft x 29 ft. Gross Registered Tonnes 641. She was built for the Barry Railway Co. Ltd. She was bought by P. & A. Campbell in 1911, after they had succeeded in forcing the rival Barry company out of business. During the First World War she became H.M.S. DEVONIA and served as a minesweeper on the East Coast. She was assigned to the South Coast when Campbells returned to that station in 1923, remaining there until 1932. She then served on the Bristol Channel until being laid up in 1939, when she was reconditioned for use as a minesweeper and sent to eastern Scotland. Attended the Dunkirk evacuation, but was abandoned on the French coast on 31 May 1940 under heavy fire from enemy aircraft, though unfounded rumours persisted for many years that she had been salvaged and put into service on the River Elbe.

1922-1960. Glen Gower was renamed HMS Glenmore in June 1941 and taken into service for World War II.

during the war known as HMS Glencross