HMS Southern Prince

HMS Southern Prince at Kyle of Lochalsh
History
Name	1929: Southern Prince 1947: Anna C
Owner	1929: Prince Line 1946: Ministry of Transport 1947: Giacomo Costa fu Andrea 1969: Costa Armatori SpA
Operator	1929: Furness, Withy 1940: Royal Navy
Port of registry	1929: London 1947: Genoa
Builder	Lithgows, Port Glasgow
Yard number	816
Launched	12 March 1929
Completed	August 1929
Acquired	requisitioned 16 December 1939
Commissioned	into Royal Navy, 15 June 1940
Decommissioned	from Royal Navy, April 1947
Identification	UK official number 161277 1929–33: code letters LDQJ 1930–47: call sign GTCW 1940–: pennant number M47 1947–72: call sign ICKA
Honours and awards	Normandy 1944
Fate	Scrapped in 1972
General characteristics
Type	1929: refrigerated cargo ship 1940: minelayer 1944: headquarters ship 1944: accommodation ship 1945: training ship 1947: passenger ship 1952: cruise ship
Tonnage	1930: 10,917 GRT, 6,501 NRT 1947: 11,447 GRT, 3,560 NRT 1953: 11,736 GRT, 6,803 NRT
Length	496.2 ft (151.2 m)
Beam	64.9 ft (19.8 m)
Draught	26 ft 6 in (8.08 m)
Depth	35.4 ft (10.8 m)
Decks	3
Installed power	as built: 2,200 NHP
Propulsion	2 × screws as built: 2 × 4-stroke diesels 1953: 2 × 2-stroke diesels
Speed	17 knots (31 km/h)
Capacity	148,583 cu ft (4,207 m3) refrigerated cargo space
Sensors and processing systems	as built: wireless direction finding, submarine signalling. by 1947: gyrocompass by 1959: radar
Armament	2 × 4-inch guns 2 × 2-pounder guns 7 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannons 4 × 0.5-inch machine guns 556 × mines
Notes	sister ships: Northern Prince, Eastern Prince, Western Prince

HMS Southern Prince was a motor ship that was built in 1929 as the refrigerated cargo ship Southern Prince. She was commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1940 as a minelayer. She became a headquarters ship and then an accommodation ship in 1944, was a fleet training ship in 1945, and returned to civilian trade in 1946. In 1947 she was sold to Italian owners who had her refitted as a passenger ship and renamed her Anna C. From 1952 she was a cruise ship. She was scrapped in 1972.

This was the first of two Prince Line ships to be called Southern Prince. The second was a general cargo ship that was launched in 1955, sold and renamed in 1971, and scrapped in 1978.^[1]