The Mirror, a twin screw vessel, built in 1923 by John Brown and Co. Ltd., at Clydebank, for Eastern Telegraph Co. Ltd. (later Cable and Wireless Ltd.). She was fitted with two sets of triple-expansion engines supplied by the shipbuilders. The Mirror served on cable-laying and repair jobs in many parts of the world before being sold to the breakers in Belgium in 1965. She is remembered by the Gibraltarians for the part she played in the war when Gibraltar was her home port, spending most of the war in the very dangerous waters of the Bay of Biscay and the Mediterranean. Up to 1942 she was mainly concerned on her normal cable repair duties in the area, ranging from the Canary Islands to Madeira, the Azores, and north of Lisbon. The Mirror also carried out Admiralty duties such as the laying and maintenance of degaussing ranges and anti-submarine devices in and around the harbour of Gibraltar. She was in the hot spot of Algiers in November 1942, to arrange cable communications for the First Army, two heavy bombs being near misses at the ship. At about this period she had the task of recovering about 138 miles of German cable north of the Azores, for use in other regions. Practically for the whole of the war she was at the centre of activities and it is hardly surprising therefore that she is affectionately remembered by the stamp which gives such a fine picture of the vessel. She became redundant after a career of just over 40 years when the new modern vessels of the company made their appearance. The Mirror's dimensions were: length 259.2 ft., width 37.2 ft., draft 22.9 ft. gross tonnage 1,850, net 656 tons. Her official number was 1,671. She was fitted for oil fuel and her port of registry was London.SG205a