Name PS Portsdown Yard number 320 Fate Mined and sunk Length 58 m | Operator Southern Railway Out of service 20 September 1941 Launched March 1928 Draft 2.65 m | |
Builder Caledon Shipbuilding, Dundee | ||
PS Portsdown was a passenger vessel built for the Southern Railway in 1928.
History
The ship was built by Caledon Shipbuilding of Dundee and launched on 24 March 1928.
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
References
PS Portsdown (1928) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA