Marmion

Ownership

1906 North British Railway Company
(05/1915 - 05/1920 Admiralty requisition)
1923 LNER
1939 Admiralty requisition.

Routes

Clyde services mainly Craigendoran - Dunoon - Rothesay.

Shipbuilder

A.& J. Inglis & Co., Glasgow (yard no. 282)
Launched 05/05/1906; Completed 1906

Dimensions

GRT: 409grt

Length: 210ft

Beam: 24ft.

Engine builder

A.& J. Inglis & Co., Glasgow

Propulsion

Compound diagonal 2cyl, 31" & 56" x 66", 212hp
Paddle wheel.

Notes

1915-1920 requisitioned as a minesweeper HMS MARMION II
1939 requisitioned as auxiliary minesweeper.
Made 3 trips Dunkirk to Dover in May/June 1940 bringing back 745 troops.
Wrecked by an air attack off Harwich on 9 April 1941, refloated and broken up at Grays, Essex in August 1941.