Territory Stories

Princess Kathleen

Details:

Title

Princess Kathleen,

Collection

WWII Military Units, HistoryNT, Second World War, 1939-1945,

Date

0000-00-00,

Location

Darwin Harbour,

Nation of service

Canada,

Service

Merchant Navy,

Service branch

Passenger Steamship,

Unit

Princess Kathleen,

Parent unit

Canadian Pacific Railway Co.,

Date arrived in NT

1941-12-06,

Date left the NT

1941-12-07,

History

In September 1939 Princess Kathleen was requisitioned by the Royal Canadian Navy for use as troop ship. Princess Kathleen was returned to Canadian Pacific in 1947 after some 250 000 miles of wartime service untouched by Axis forces. She made 1 trip to Darwin.,

Notes

Metadata: Attribution International 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0,

Language

English,

Subject

Second World War, 1939-1945, Merchant Navy, Canada, Passengers, Steamship, Princess Kathleen,

File type

image/jpeg,

Use

No known copyright,

Copyright owner

Australian War Memorial,

License

https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/pubic-domain/pdm,

Related links

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C250240 [Australian War Memorial : Photograph 303818, Naval Historical Collection], https://www.navy.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/POLYNESIEN_TO_PUNYELROO.pdf [Princess Kathleen p.146],

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843600,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843600

Related items

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/844071,