PS Portsdown (1928)

PS Portsdown was a passenger vessel built for the Southern Railway in 1928.[1]

History
Name: PS Portsdown
Operator: Southern Railway
Port of registry:
Builder: Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, 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)

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]

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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.
  3. "Naval Events, September 1941, Part 2 of 2, Monday 15th – Tuesday 30th". Naval History. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
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