&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Isle_of_Wight_ferries_at_Portsmouth_Harbour_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1340486.jpg) Sandown (left) and Ryde at Portsmouth Harbour on 15 July 1965
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| History | |
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| Name | PS Sandown |
| Operator |
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| Port of registry |  |
| Builder | William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton |
| Cost | £39,850 |
| Yard number | 1272 |
| Launched | 1 May 1934 |
| Out of service | 16 July 1966 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1966 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 684 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Length | 216 feet (66 m) |
| Beam | 29.1 feet (8.9 m) |
| Draught | 7 feet (2.1 m) |
| Speed | 14.5 knots |
| Capacity | 900 passengers |
PS Sandown was a passenger vessel built for the Southern Railway in 1934 and later served with distinction in the Royal Navy during the Second World War.[1]
- ^ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.