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PS ''Slieve Donard'' was a United Kingdom passenger paddle steamer that in different periods of her history was also called PS ''Albion'' and HMS ''Albyn''. ''Albion'' is the name she bore the longest and may be the one by which she is better known in England. ''Slieve Donard'' was her original name and the one by which she will be best known on the island of Ireland. J&G Thomson launched ''Slieve Donard'' in 1893 for the Belfast and County Down Railway (B&CDR).〔 In 1900 she joined P&A Campbell's White Funnel Fleet of pleasure steamers and was renamed ''Albion''.〔 From 1915 she served with the Royal Navy as HMS '' Albyn''.〔 She was bombed in 1917 and scrapped in 1921.〔 ==''Slieve Donard'' with the B&CDR== J&G Thomson of Clydebank built the ship for the B&CDR〔 for a price of more than £18,000. Thomson's launched her on 20 May 1893 and quickly her fitted out, giving her a capacity for a combined total of 1,065 passengers and crew. The B&CDR named her ''Slieve Donard'' after the highest peak in the Mourne Mountains in County Down. At the same time Thomson built an exact sister ship, , for the Glasgow and South Western Railway. Thomson had launched another sister ship for the G&SWR, , a few weeks previously. ''Minerva'' had detail differences from ''Glen Rosa'' and ''Slieve Donard''. ''Slieve Donard'' entered service on 20 June 1893, which was within a week of her arrival on Belfast Lough. Her regular route was between Belfast and Bangor, for which the scheduled journey time was 55 minutes. On 1 May 1894 the B&CDR introduced a second new steamer, the slightly larger . Between them ''Donard'' and ''Bearnagh'' made six sailings ''per'' day from Belfast to Bangor from Mondays to Saturdays and a similar number back to Belfast. There were five sailings on Sundays, and from Mondays to Saturdays one sailing ''per'' day extended beyond Bangor to Donaghadee. On Saturday afternoons other sailings continued from Bangor across Belfast Lough to Larne. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「PS Slieve Donard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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