PS Duchess of Richmond (1910)

History
Name:	PS Duchess of Richmond
Operator:	London and South Western Railway and London, Brighton and South Coast Railway
Port of registry:
Builder:	D and W Henderson, Glasgow
Yard number:	471
Launched:	11 June 1910
Out of service:	28 June 1919
Fate:	Sunk by a mine
General characteristics
Tonnage:	365 gross register tons (GRT)
Length:	190.2 feet (58.0 m)
Beam:	26.1 feet (8.0 m)
Draught:	8.7 feet (2.7 m)

PS Duchess of Richmond was a passenger vessel built for the London and South Western Railway and London, Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1910.^[1]

History

The ship was built by D and W Henderson of Glasgow and launched on 11 June 1910. She was constructed for a joint venture between the London and South Western Railway and the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway for the passenger trade to the Isle of Wight.

On 25 June 1911 she collided with the pinnace of the Swedish warship Flygia which was bringing men ashore on leave. The pinnace was smashed and the crew thrown into the water, but all were rescued. ^[2]

She was requisitioned by the Admiralty as HMS Duchess of Richmond a minesweeper during the First World War. On 28 June 1919 she struck a mine and sank in the Mediterranean Sea.^[3]

References

1. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
2. "The King and the Veterans. Reception at Portsmouth". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer (England). 26 June 1911. Retrieved 14 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
3. Dendy Marshall, C. F.; Kidner, R. W. (1963) [1937]. A History of the Southern Railway. Volume One. Ian Allan. p. 151.