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} in ) in 1888. | Ship yard number = | Ship way number = 93381 | Ship laid down = | Ship launched = April 14th, 1887 | Ship completed = 1887 | Ship christened = | Ship acquired = 1888 | Ship maiden voyage = | Ship in service = 1888 | Ship out of service = 1915 | Ship identification = *Official Number 93381 *Code Letters P K D B * *〔Ships of the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company (Fred Henry) p.64〕 | Ship fate = Sold to the Admiralty together with her sister, ''Queen Victoria'', 1915. Scrapped at Scheveningen, the Netherlands, 1919 | Ship status = Scrapped | Ship notes = }} |} PS (RMS) ''Prince of Wales'' No. 93381 was a steel built paddle steamer which was purchased together with her sister , by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company from the Isle of Man, Liverpool and Manchester Steamship Company in 1888 - referred to as ''The Manx Line''. ==Construction and dimensions== ''Prince of Wales'' was built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan, in 1887, and was launched on Thursday, April 14th, 1887. Fairfield's also supplied her engines and boilers. The cost of her construction is not recorded. However, she was purchased by the Steam Packet Company together with PS ''Queen Victoria'' for the sum of £155,000 (£}} in ) Length 330'; beam 39'1"; depth 15'2". ''Prince of Wales'' had a registered tonnage of , was certified to carry 1546 passengers and had a crew complement of 69. Both sisters were fitted with compound engines developing at 40.5 r.p.m., with a boiler steam pressure of . Both the ''Prince of Wales'' and ''Queen Victoria's'' engines were referred to as a ''coupled two crankshaft engine''. The crankshaft was connected at the crank by a drag link, the object of which was to get the two cranks at right angles, one driving the valve gear of the other. The high pressure cylinder was horizontal to, and the low pressure cylinder diagonal to, the centre of the shaft. The two cylinders were 61 and 112 inches in diameter with a 78" inch stroke. So successful were these two ships that a number of other companies adopted the engine design for cross-channel work. 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「SS Prince of Wales (1887)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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