SS Princess Maud (1902)

History
Name	SS Princess Maud
Owner	1902-1918: London and North Western Railway
Operator	1902-1916: London and North Western Railway; 1916-1918: Commissioned fleet; 1908-1918: London and North Western Railway;
Port of registry	114008
Builder	Napier and Miller, Yoker yard
Launched	14 November 1901
Fate	Torpedoed and sunk 10 June 1918
General characteristics
Type	Steel screw steamer
Tonnage	1566
Length	256.5 feet (78.2 m)
Beam	36.7 feet (11.2 m)
Depth	16.4 feet (5.0 m)

The SS Princess Maud was a single screw passenger/cargo steamship completed in 1902 for the London and North Western Railway.^[1]

She was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea about 5 miles (8.0 km) north east by north from Blyth, Northumberland on 10 June 1918 by a German submarine variously quoted to be UB-88 or UB-34.^[2]^[3]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "Scottish Built Ships". Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. Princess Maud - 1902. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
^ ^a ^b Tennant, A. J. (1 April 2006). British Merchant Ships Sunk by U-boats in World War One (2 ed.). Periscope Publishing Ltd. p. 150. ISBN 978-1904381365.
^ "Ships hit during WWI - Princess Maud". uboat.net. Retrieved 28 February 2018.

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