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: |
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| 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]
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.
- "Naval Events, September 1941, Part 2 of 2, Monday 15th – Tuesday 30th". Naval History. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
| Shipwrecks |
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| Other incidents |
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1940   August 1941 | |
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