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Banstead

	GUCC Fleet No.	107
	Class	Town
	Original Type:	Motor
	Known As	Large Woolwich
	Date Built	9.12.36
	Hull Construction	Steel
	Registered	BREN 605
	Intended Paring	225

History

Owned by Birmingham and Midland CC in the 1970's. 2000 having work done at Nuneaton is unconverted but Trading as a floating tea and coffee shop. For sale 2007

Factoids

No. 11 - Asturias Before being broken up ship no. 507 the Asturias, was lent by the breaker, Thomas W. Ward, to the Rank Organisation for use in the film "A Night to Remember". Asturias' port side was used to depict Titanic in the lifeboat-lowering scenes of the film even as the shipbreakers were at work on the starboard side.

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