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Friday, 26 October 2018

Dutch passenger ship Prinses Juliana 1909-1916

Archive Kon. Mij. De Schelde 513. 721 Town Archive Vlissingen, Netherlands

Archive Kon. Mij. De Schelde 513. 723Town Archive Vlissingen, Netherlands
Drawings made by T.S.H.Martin around 1909

Of the Stoomvaart Maatschappij Zeeland. Used on the route Vlissingen, Netherlands-Queensborough, United Kingdom.Built by Fairfield Shipbuilding&Engineering Co. Ltd., Glasgow, Scotland with yard number 461 in 1909 and lost and after hitting a mine near the Felixstowe lightship laid by the German submarine UC 5 underway from Vlissingen towards Tilbury on 1 February 1916. She grounded and later broke into two parts during a gale in the storm of 29 March 1916.