Princess Dagmar

Official Number

Ship Builder

Engine Builder

Engine Type

124178

Napier & Miller

Clyde

Dunsmuir & Jackson

Govan

Steam 3 Cyl

116 NHP

Screws

Torpedoed & Sunk - May 1914

Princess Dagmar SS was a British Cargo Steamer of 913grt and was defensively-armed.

She was built by Napier & Miller, Old Kilpatrick in 1907and was powered by a steam triple expansion engine which gave 8.5 knots.

On the 7th May 1918 she was torpedoed and sunk without warning in the Bristol Channel by German submarine U-54 when on passage from Swansea for France with a cargo of coal.

24 lives lost including Master.

Princess Dagmar Left Swansea For France Lost 7 May 1918		Fate
Master	W Jones	Lost
Chief Officer	A McMillan	Lost
Second Officer	P E Killey	Lost
Chief Engineer	T Hughes	Lost
Second Engineer	J J Souter	Lost
Third Engineer	H Q Sayle	Lost
Able Seamen	T J Bishop T J Cubbon D A Meredith T A Moore J H Watterson	All Lost
Seamen	C Johnson R Mayhew	Both Lost
Winchman	W Kemp	Lost
Lamps	N MacInnes	Lost
Donkeyman	J W Murray	Lost
Greasers	W Angus	Lost
Firemen	V Johnson D M Tanner	Lost
Cook	J G Hansen	Lost
Steward	W C Stove	Lost
Cook’s Boy	H Hayton	Lost

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