PS Portsdown (1928)

History
Name: PS Portsdown
Operator: Southern Railway
Port of registry: United Kingdom
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

  1. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
  2. "Launch from Dundee Shipyard". Dundee Courier. Scotland. 24 March 1928. Retrieved 14 November 2015 via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
  3. "NAVAL EVENTS, SEPTEMBER 1941, Part 2 of 2, Monday 15th – Tuesday 30th". Naval History. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
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