HMS Southern Prince

HMS Southern Prince at Kyle of Lochalsh
History
Name
  • 1929: Southern Prince
  • 1947: Anna C
Owner
Operator
Port of registry
BuilderLithgows, Port Glasgow
Yard number816
Launched12 March 1929
CompletedAugust 1929
Acquiredrequisitioned 16 December 1939
Commissionedinto Royal Navy, 15 June 1940
Decommissionedfrom Royal Navy, April 1947
Identification
Honours and
awards
Normandy 1944
FateScrapped in 1972
General characteristics
Type
Tonnage
  • 1930: 10,917 GRT, 6,501 NRT
  • 1947: 11,447 GRT, 3,560 NRT
  • 1953: 11,736 GRT, 6,803 NRT
Length496.2 ft (151.2 m)
Beam64.9 ft (19.8 m)
Draught26 ft 6 in (8.08 m)
Depth35.4 ft (10.8 m)
Decks3
Installed poweras built: 2,200 NHP
Propulsion
Speed17 knots (31 km/h)
Capacity148,583 cu ft (4,207 m3) refrigerated cargo space
Sensors and
processing systems
Armament
Notessister ships: Northern Prince, Eastern Prince, Western Prince

HMS Southern Prince was a motor ship that was built in 1929 as the refrigerated cargo ship Southern Prince. She was commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1940 as a minelayer. She became a headquarters ship and then an accommodation ship in 1944, was a fleet training ship in 1945, and returned to civilian trade in 1946. In 1947 she was sold to Italian owners who had her refitted as a passenger ship and renamed her Anna C. From 1952 she was a cruise ship. She was scrapped in 1972.

This was the first of two Prince Line ships to be called Southern Prince. The second was a general cargo ship that was launched in 1955, sold and renamed in 1971, and scrapped in 1978.[1]

  1. ^ "Southern Prince (1955)". Scottish Built Ships. Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. Retrieved 8 May 2023.