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'''PS ''Merstone''''' was a passenger vessel built for the [[Southern Railway (UK)|Southern Railway]] in 1928.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Duckworth |first1=Christian Leslie Dyce |last2=Langmuir |first2=Graham Easton |date=1968 |title=Railway and other Steamers |trans-title= |url= |dead-url= |format= |language=English |___location=Prescot, Lancashire |publisher= T. Stephenson and Sons |isbn= |archive-url= |archive-date= |via= |subscription= |quote= }}</ref>

==History==

The ship was built by Caledon Shipbuilding of Dundee and launched on 26 January 1928<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=To-Day’s launch at Dundee |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000563/19280126/073/0005 |newspaper=Dundee Evening Telegraph |___location=Scotland |date=26 January 1928 |access-date=14 November 2015|via = [[British Newspaper Archive]] |subscriptionurl-access=yessubscription }}</ref> by Mrs Donald A Mathieson, wife of the former general manager of the Scottish section of the L.M.S. Railway Company. She was one of an order for two new ships, the other being {{PS|Portsdown|1928|2}}.

She was withdrawn from service at Christmas 1950 and sold in September 1952 for breaking in Northam.