TSS 'Mona's Queen (III)' launch
Date(s): 12 April 1934
Creator(s): Bale, Stewart
Scope & Content: Launched 12 April 1934. Built by Cammell Laird & Co. Ltd, Birkenhead. Mined and sunk at Dunkirk on 29 May 1940 in the Second World War.
TSS Mona's Queen (III) was a ship built for the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company in 1934. Just six years after being launched, she was sunk by a sea mine during the Dunkirk evacuation on 29 May 1940.
In the early hours of 29 May, the Mona's Queen set sail for Dunkirk from Dover loaded with water canisters because troops on the Dunkirk beaches were short of drinking water. However, the ship struck a magnetic sea mine outside Dunkirk harbour at 5:30am. The Mona's Queen sank in two minutes.
Twenty-four of the crew were lost. Of the crew who died, 14 worked in the engine room. They included the Chief and Second Engineer. Seventeen of the dead were from the Isle of Man.
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Language: eng
Physical description: sepia print
Item name: photograph
Collection: Photographic Archive
Level: ITEM
ID number: PG/13621/38