PS Sandown (1934)

Sandown (left) and Ryde at Portsmouth Harbour on 15 July 1965
History
NamePS Sandown
Operator
Port of registryUnited Kingdom
BuilderWilliam Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton
Cost£39,850
Yard number1272
Launched1 May 1934
Out of service16 July 1966
FateScrapped 1966
General characteristics
Tonnage684 gross register tons (GRT)
Length216 feet (66 m)
Beam29.1 feet (8.9 m)
Draught7 feet (2.1 m)
Speed14.5 knots
Capacity900 passengers

PS Sandown was a passenger vessel built for the Southern Railway in 1934 and later served with distinction in the Royal Navy during the Second World War.[1]

  1. ^ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.