Category:Earl Grey (ship, 1909)

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English: Steel-hulled, twin screw, triple expansion steam driven icebreaking passenger steamer, 265 feet long.
  • Vickers, Sons & Maxim, Barrow-in-Furness built her for the Canadian Government in 1909.
  • Earl Grey was named after Albert Henry George Grey, 4th Earl of Grey, who was Governor-General of Canada between 1904 and 1911. With her very spacious accommodation she was suitable for important inspection tours and was much used by Lord Grey himself.
  • She was sold to Russia in 1914 and gave many years of service before being scrapped. Her wheelhouse and radio shack are on view in the Maritime Museum in Moscow.

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