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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Princess Margaret |
| Builder | William Denny, Dunbarton |
| Launched | 24 June 1914 |
| Acquired | Chartered 26 December 1914 |
| Fate | Sold May 1929 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 5,934 GRT |
| Length | 395 ft 6 in (120.55 m) oa |
| Beam | 54 ft (16.46 m) |
| Draught | 16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) |
| Installed power | 15,000 shp (11,000 kW) |
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| Speed | 22.5 kn (25.9 mph; 41.7 km/h) |
| Complement | 225 |
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HMS Princess Margaret was a minelayer operated by the British Royal Navy during and after the First World War. She was built by the Scottish shipbuilder William Denny for the Canadian Pacific Railway as a liner to serve on the Pacific West Coast, and as such was powered by geared steam turbines, giving a speed of 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph).
The outbreak of war caused her to be taken over by the Royal Navy and to be converted to a minelayer, carrying as many as 500 mines. She was widely used for minelaying in the North Sea and English Channel during the war, which she survived, having laid the most mines of any Royal Navy ship during the war. She remained in Royal Navy service following the end of the war, taking part in the British intervention in the Russian Civil War. She was sold for scrap in 1929.