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CROSSING WITH THE ‘MAID OF KENT’

he crossing of the English Channel was for years in the, entering service on 27th May the following year on sailings from Folkestone and Dover. She was the third with that name which had previously been carried by a London, Chatham & Dover Railway paddle steamer and a Southern Railway vessel lost at Dieppe in 1940.

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