&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:HMS_Whippingham_WWII_IWM_FL_5783.jpg) Aerial photograph of Whippingham while in Royal Navy service.
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| History | |
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| Name | PS Whippingham |
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| Port of registry |  |
| Builder | Fairfield, Govan |
| Yard number | 642 |
| Launched | 1 May 1930 |
| Out of service | August 1963 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1963 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 825 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Length | 244 feet (74 m) |
| Beam | 30.1 feet (9.2 m) |
| Draught | 10.5 feet (3.2 m) |
PS Whippingham was a passenger paddle steamer built for the Southern Railway in 1930 for the ferry route to the Isle of Wight.[1] After distinguished war service, she returned to ferry work until she was scrapped in 1963.
- ^ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.