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PORT QUEBEC unknown location, undated
Photo collection:Peter Schliefke (copyright unknown)
Built by J. L. Thompson shipyard, North Sands, Yard-No.593
5800 GT, 8780 dwt ? 142.6 x 21.2m
Launched:17-08-1939.Completed: -11-1939
1939 PORT QUEBEC Port Line Ltd., London, Gbr.
1945 DEER SOUND Royal Navy, Gbr.
1946 PORT QUEBEC Port Line Ltd., London, Gbr.
23-06-1968 broken up by Chou?s Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., Kaohsiung
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PORT QUEBEC was built in 1939 by J.L.Thompson & Sons at Sunderland with
a tonnage of 5936grt, a length of 468ft, a beam of 59ft 8in and a service
speed of 14 knots. Costing ?207,783 to build she was intended for the M. A.
N. Z. service but was requisitioned by the Admiralty who converted her into
the minelayer HMS Quebec. She was deployed as part of the 1st Minelaying
Squadron together with the Port Napier, Prince Line?s Southern Prince and
Alfred Holt?s Menestheus and Prometheus. She was purchased by the
Admiralty in 1943 and converted into an aircraft component repair ship and
renamed Deer Sound but after the war, in 1947, was re-purchased by Port
Line and converted back to her original form. On 10th March 1968 she came
under the management of Blueport and on 23rd June of the same year
arrived at Kaohsiung where she was broken up.
Source:http://www.red-duster.co.uk/PORT6.htm
Photo collection:Peter Schliefke (copyright unknown)
Built by J. L. Thompson shipyard, North Sands, Yard-No.593
5800 GT, 8780 dwt ? 142.6 x 21.2m
Launched:17-08-1939.Completed: -11-1939
1939 PORT QUEBEC Port Line Ltd., London, Gbr.
1945 DEER SOUND Royal Navy, Gbr.
1946 PORT QUEBEC Port Line Ltd., London, Gbr.
23-06-1968 broken up by Chou?s Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., Kaohsiung
************************************************** ******
PORT QUEBEC was built in 1939 by J.L.Thompson & Sons at Sunderland with
a tonnage of 5936grt, a length of 468ft, a beam of 59ft 8in and a service
speed of 14 knots. Costing ?207,783 to build she was intended for the M. A.
N. Z. service but was requisitioned by the Admiralty who converted her into
the minelayer HMS Quebec. She was deployed as part of the 1st Minelaying
Squadron together with the Port Napier, Prince Line?s Southern Prince and
Alfred Holt?s Menestheus and Prometheus. She was purchased by the
Admiralty in 1943 and converted into an aircraft component repair ship and
renamed Deer Sound but after the war, in 1947, was re-purchased by Port
Line and converted back to her original form. On 10th March 1968 she came
under the management of Blueport and on 23rd June of the same year
arrived at Kaohsiung where she was broken up.
Source:http://www.red-duster.co.uk/PORT6.htm