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Princess Marguerite

Details:

Title

Princess Marguerite

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 Marguerite

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 Marguerite was requisitioned by the Royal Canadian Navy for use as troop ship. 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 Marguerite

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]; http://www.navy.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/POLYNESIEN_TO_PUNYELROO.pdf [Princess Marguerite p.147]

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843601

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/844070