HMT Princesse Clementine
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| History | |
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| Owner | HMT Princesse Clementine |
| Builder | Hoboken, Belgium |
| Launched | October 1896 |
| Completed | 1897 |
| In service | 1897 |
| Out of service | 1923 |
| Fate | broken up in 1928 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Mild steel built Paddle Steamer |
| Tonnage | 1,474 tons |
| Length | 324 ft 3in |
| Beam | 37ft 8i |
| Depth | 14ft 2in |
| Propulsion | 2 x side paddle wheels |
| Speed | 22 knots (40.74 km/h) |
| Capacity | 700 passengers |
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Could carry 700 passengers in luxurious state rooms and cabins between Ostend and Dover.
At the outbreak of war it operated from Ostend and Dover, but with German occupation of much of Belgium, she moved to operated out of Folkestone. The Belgium War Office then lent her to the British War Government in May 1915, and she spent the rest of the war transporting troops to France from Folkestone and Southampton. She also carried out hospital ship duties when required.
At the conclussion of hostilities she returned to commercial operation until 1923 when she was placed in reserve, before being eventually broken up in France during 1928
Soldiers carried
Folkestone to France 21 December 1916
- Joseph Clough
- William Francis Cohn
- Harold Empsall
- William Henry Gibbs
- Frederick Hobbs
- † Joseph Reginald Jones
- † Osborne King
- William Edward McKenna
- Bertram Ernest Powell
- Egbert Robert Trethowan Reeves
- † Frederick William Thornton
- Theodore (Cecil) Charles Turner
- Arthur John Verrall
- Cyril Arthur Woodland