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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Full title - S.S. ST. DAVID, defensive stiffeing arrangement, March 1939. Elevations have a yellow or pink wash, accompanying letter sent from G.W.R. and dated 26 May 1939 is attached by a red wax seal, all in a cream cover.
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 When a replacement St David was built in 1932, this vessel was re-named Rosslare, but she was withdrawn from service soon afterwards and cut up at Newport in 1933.
