Ship - RMS King George V at Oban - American postcard c.1960s

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• Picture / Image:  RMS King George V - in Oban
• Publisher: Audio-Visual Designs, Earlton, New York
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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TS King George V (the "KGV") was a pioneering Clyde passenger turbine steamer, built in 1926. She was a popular boat, seeing service to Inveraray and later based in Oban, and withdrawn in 1974

King George V was built by William Denny and Brothers for the Turbine Steamers Ltd^[2] as a pioneering turbine powered vessel intended for longer routes. She passed to the ownership of David MacBrayne Ltd in October 1935, when plans to rename her were never enacted.^[3] Displaced by MV Columba, she was withdrawn from service in 1974. Several attempts were made to preserve her as a floating pub or restaurant, but all failed. King George Vwas burnt out at Cardiff docks in 1981 and scrapped in 1984.^[2]

King George V was initially mainly used on the Inveraray service but also visited Campbeltown.^[2] She became a much loved ship. After 1935, she was based in Oban cruising round Mull, to Iona, Staffa and Fort William.

In World War II, she was requisitioned as a troop carrier, initially based at Southampton. In 1940, she evacuated troops from Rotterdam, Ostend, Calais, Boulogne and famously, Dunkirk, landing 4300 men at Dover.^[2] Returning to the Clyde in 1941 for tendering duties, she carried Prime Minister, Winston Churchill to his battleship en route to the Atlantic Conference.^[4]

After the war, she resumed MacBrayne cruises on the Clyde in 1946, including the summer Ardrishaig mail service.^[2] She was back to Oban in 1947 and each summer until withdrawn in 1974. In her final years she also undertook charters, including one to Bangor in Ireland.^[4]