hms prince charles

[lumsdale]

H.M.S. PRINCE CHARLES is engraved on a small copper jug I bought from a thrift store in DERBY in England. The engraving is very worn and the jug looks handmade. Who is the Prince Charles refered to and if there a record of this ship what happened to it.?

[scoobysoo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Prince_of_Wal es_(1939)

[fredpuli47]

There were certainly two ships named HMS Prince Charles. One wasa Q ship, a decoy ship which appeared to be a merchant ship but which carried a gun for use against submarines.When a submarine surfaced the gun was raised up through a hatch and brought to bear. That was in the First World War This ship was certainly in action in 1915.It seems she sank a submarine that year.

The second Prince Charles was a cross-channel ferry. She was converted into a landing ship in the Second World War.She was in action in e.g.the raid on Dieppe

As to which Prince Charles is, or are, referred to, I ain't discovered.

[Doc1800]

Scoobysoo's link refers to Bertie, Prince of Wales who became King Edward VIII - the ship in question definitely wasn't named after him.

If Fredpuli is right about dates, my best guess for the origins of the name of the first ship is Prince Charles, Duke of Albany. He was a grandson of Queen Victoria - though ironically disowned by the royal family in the Great War because, as Duke of Coburg from 1900, he was obliged to fight for the Germans.

The other ship is more tricky. It depends when it was built - the only Prince Charles around at that time was the brother of the Belgian king - a bit obscure, but a possibility as the Belgian royal family was close to Britain's.

[rickles23]

The LSI or the t/s Prince Charles was built in 1930 and scrapped in 1960.
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