Casgliadau Arlein

Colour postcard of the paddle steamer GWALIA at sea. Message on reverse. Green half penny stamp franked Penarth 1905.

P.S. GWALIA. Built in 1905 by John Brown at Clydebank, for the Barry Railway Company. Engines : Compound diagonal. Dimensions : 245 ft x 29 ft. 519 Gross Registered Tonnes. Sold to the Furness Railway Company in 1910 and renamed PS Lady Moyra. Used as a minesweeper in First World War. Sold after the war to the Tucker "Yellow Funnel Fleet", returning to the Bristol Channel. Sailed for three seasons for the Tucker operation before its financial failure. Purchased by P and A Campbell at auction in July 1922. Ran for the White Funnel fleet from 1923, being stationed on the South Coast from 1933, renamed PS Brighton Queen Sank at Dunkirk in 1940 on her second trip to evacuate troops back to the UK.