&sq=&lang=&file=File:MonasQueen_1930s_01.jpg) Mona's Queen
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| History | |
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 Isle of Man | |
| Name | Mona's Queen |
| Owner | 1934–1940: Isle of Man Steam Packet Company |
| Operator | 1934–1940: Isle of Man Steam Packet Company |
| Port of registry | Douglas, Isle of Man |
| Builder | Cammell Laird, Birkenhead |
| Cost | £201,250 |
| Yard number | 998 |
| Way number | 145308[1] |
| Laid down | 27 October 1933 |
| Launched | 12 April 1934 |
| Completed | 25 June 1934 |
| Maiden voyage | 1934 |
| Out of service | May 1940 |
| Identification | |
| Fate | Sunk at Dunkirk, 29 May 1940 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Passenger Steamer |
| Tonnage | 2,756 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Length | 347 feet (106 m) |
| Beam | 48 feet (15 m) |
| Depth | 17 feet (5.2 m) |
| Decks | 5 |
| Ice class | N/A |
| Installed power | 8,500 shp (6,300 kW) |
| Propulsion | Two sets of single-reduction Parson's-geared turbines; developing 8,500 shp (6,300 kW) |
| Speed | 22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph) |
| Capacity | 2,486 passengers |
| Crew | 83 |
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TSS (RMS) Mona's Queen (III) No. 145308, was a ship built for the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company in 1934. The steamer, which was the third vessel in the company's history to bear the name, was one of five ships to be specially commissioned by the company between 1927 and 1937. They were replacements for the various second-hand steamers that had been purchased to replace the company's losses during the First World War. However, the life of the Mona's Queen proved to be short: six years after being launched she was sunk by a sea mine during the Dunkirk evacuation on 29 May 1940.