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638:22 August
488:Sheerness
421:in 1932.
372:steamship
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211:Completed
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21:HMS Argus
557:and the
555:Penzance
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515:In 1917
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263:Tonnage
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181:Builder
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507:Humber
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367:Argus
331:Speed
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73:Owner
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47:Argus
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