PS Portsdown (1928)
History | |
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Name: | PS Portsdown |
Operator: | Southern Railway |
Port of registry: | |
Builder: | Caledon Shipbuilding, Dundee |
Yard number: | 320 |
Launched: | 23 March 1928 |
Out of service: | 20 September 1941 |
Fate: | Mined and sunk |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage: | 342 gross register tons (GRT) |
Length: | 190 feet (58 m) |
Beam: | 25.1 feet (7.7 m) |
Draught: | 8.7 feet (2.7 m) |
PS Portsdown was a passenger vessel built for the Southern Railway in 1928.[1]
History
The ship was built by Caledon Shipbuilding of Dundee and launched on 24 March 1928.[2]
Kept on the Portsmouth to Ryde run during the Second World War with her sister ship Merstone, she hit a mine on 20 September 1941 and sank with the loss of 23 lives[3]
References
- ↑ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
- ↑ "Launch from Dundee Shipyard". Dundee Courier. Scotland. 24 March 1928. Retrieved 14 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
- ↑ "NAVAL EVENTS, SEPTEMBER 1941, Part 2 of 2, Monday 15th – Tuesday 30th". Naval History. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
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