Princess

Princess
Rig Class.Twin Screw Diesel Schooner
Year built:1924
Fate:Sunk in a collision in 1940
General characteristics
Class & Type:Twin Screw Diesel Schooner
Ton:730 tons
Beam:

She was requisitioned in September 1939 and allocated to the WEstern Approaches Command based at Swansea.  She was fitted with depth-charge equipment at Camper and Nicholson, Southampton, and then commissioned as an anti-submarine escort ship on 2 October 1939.

She had early contact with the enemy when she sighted a submarine off Bull Point in the Bristol Channel.  She attacked with depth charges but without result.

Her war service was short, though, for, on 11 January 1940, she was in collision with SS Blairmore near Elwell Bay in the Bristol Channel and sank soon afterwards, without any loss of life.

Owners

Namefromto
The Viscount Kemsley GBE 1936 1939

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