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Corolla

	GUCC Fleet No.	31
	Class	Star
	Original Type:	Motor
	Known As	Small Woolwich
	Date Built	18.12.35
	Hull Construction	Steel Composite
	Registered	BREN 575
	Intended Paring	246

History

converted to trip boat WATER WAGTAIL in the 50's. seen at Foxton 7/00

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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