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| Ship name                = PS ''Duchess of Richmond''
| Ship operator            = [[London and South Western Railway]] and [[London, Brighton and South Coast Railway]]
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| Ship fate                = Sunk 28 June 1919 by a mine in the Aegean Sea<ref>[http://www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyBritishAdmiraltyEstimates1919.htm Admiralty Estimates for 1919] (appendix) accessed 25 October 2016</ref>
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'''PS ''Duchess of Richmond''''' was a passenger vessel built for the [[London and South Western Railway]] and [[London, Brighton and South Coast Railway]] in 1910.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Duckworth |first1=Christian Leslie Dyce |last2=Langmuir |first2=Graham Easton |date=1968 |title=Railway and other Steamers |language=en |location=Prescot, Lancashire |publisher= T. Stephenson and Sons }}</ref>

==History==

The ship was built by D and W Henderson of Glasgow and launched on 11 June 1910. She was constructed for a joint venture between the [[London and South Western Railway]] and the [[London, Brighton and South Coast Railway]] for the passenger trade to the [[Isle of Wight]].

On 25 June 1911 she collided with the pinnace of the Swedish warship Flygia which was bringing men ashore on leave. The pinnace was smashed and the crew thrown into the water, but all were rescued.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=The King and the Veterans. Reception at Portsmouth |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19110626/088/0006 |newspaper=Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer |location=England |date=26 June 1911 |access-date=14 November 2015|via = [[British Newspaper Archive]] |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

She was requisitioned by the Admiralty as HMS Duchess of Richmond a minesweeper during the [[First World War]]. On 28 June 1919 she struck a [[naval mine|mine]] and sank in the [[Aegean Sea]].<ref>{{cite book | last1=Dendy Marshall| first1=C. F. |last2=Kidner |first2=R. W. |author-link2=Roger Kidner| title=A History of the Southern Railway |volume=One | publisher=Ian Allan |year=1963 |orig-year=1937 |page=151}}</ref><ref>[http://www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyBritishAdmiraltyEstimates1919.htm Admiralty Estimates for 1919] (appendix) accessed 25 October 2016</ref>

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[[Category:1910 ships]]
[[Category:Steamships of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Paddle steamers of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Ships built on the River Clyde]]
[[Category:Ships of the London and South Western Railway]]
[[Category:Ships of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway]]
[[Category:Maritime incidents in 1919]]
[[Category:Ships sunk by mines]]