Name: Duchess Certificate number: 386	Status: Registered Function: Passenger Vessel Sub Functional Area: Type: Passenger Vessel Location: Oban, Argyll & Buteshire, Scotland Current use: Up for Sale Length Overall: 15.24 metres (49.96 feet) Tonnage Not Known: 0.00 Depth Not Known: 0.00 (0.00 ) Breadth Not Known: 0.00 (0.00 )

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Builder

• 1927, Builder not known,

History

Built in 1927, DUCHESS is a passenger vessel with the capacity to carry 77 passengers. Based at Oban, she ran excursions to Duart Castle on the Isle of Mull. However, she has ceased trading as a passenger boat due to age and costs and is currently up for sale.

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Previous names

Bibliography

• Hamer, Geoffrey, 1995, Trip Out 1995/6 - A Guide to the Passenger Boat Services of the British Isles, pp. 94, G P Hamer

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