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HMCS PRINCE ROBERT ARCHIVE I
Archive 01

HONG KONG MISSION 1941

HMCS PRINCE ROBERT F56 - IMO : 156906 Built 1930, by Cammell Laird & Co. Ltd., Birkenhead, UK (Yard # 966) as PRINCE ROBERT Type of vessel : Passenger / Cargo Refrigerated GRT : 6892 / DWT : ?? Length (LPP) : 111.7 metres x Beam 17.4 metres. Machinery : 2 Screw driven by steam turbines manufactured by Cammell Laird & Co. Ltd. Speed : 22.5 knots  History POR = Port of Registry 1930: PRINCE ROBERT : Prince Robert Ltd. - Canadian National Steamships Ltd., Vancouver: POR Vancouver. 1939: HMCS PRINCE ROBERT : Royal Canadian Navy: •1939: Converted into an Armed Merchant cruiser •1940: 31 July : Commissioned in RCN •1943: Converted into an Auxiliary A/A vessel •1945: Paid off and laid up in Lynn Creek, British Columbia, Canada •For Naval History see readyayeready.com/ships/shipview.php?id=1334 1948: CHARLTON SOVEREIGN : Charlton Steam Shipping Co Ltd : POR London 1952: LUCANIA : Fratelli Grimaldi : POR Naples •1953: Rebuilt and Lengthened: New Length (LPP) 121.9 metres/ GRT 6723 1962: Sold to G.Riccardi and broken up at Vado Ligure

HMCS Prince Robert in Drydock

HMCS PRINCE ROBERT 1941

HMCS Prince Robert and HMAS Australia (II), Auckland, April 1941
 

Infantrymen of “C” Company (Royal Rifles of Canada)
boarding HMCS Prince Robert, Vancouver, B.C. Oct 26, 1941

Infantrymen of C Company (Royal Rifles of Canada) and their mascot,
en route to Hong Kong, Vancouver Oct 27 1941
 

HMCS Prince Robert and HMCS Sioux
 

Infantrymen of “C” Company (Royal Rifles of Canada) en route to Hong Kong
aboard HMCS Prince Robert, November 15, 1941
 

Infantrymen of “C” Company (Royal Rifles of Canada)
disembarking from HMCS Prince Robert, Hong Kong, November 16, 1941
 

Infantrymen of “C” Company (Royal Rifles of Canada)
disembarking from HMCS Prince Robert, Hong Kong, November 16, 1941

 

View of a small section of Hong Kong

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