SS Princess Henriette

SS Princess Henriette

History
Name	SS Princess Henrietta
Owner	Belgium Government
Builder	William Denny & Brothers, Dumbarton
Launched	14 Mar 1888
Fate	scrapped in 1922
General characteristics
Type	Channel Ferry (Paddle steamer)
Propulsion	2 x side paddle wheels
Speed	21 knots

Remarks

Built for the Belgium Government, the Princess Henriette was the last ship to leave a Belgium port before England declared war on Germany. With 1,200 aboard she left Ostend and arrived in Dover on 3 Sep 1914.

During the war she acted as a troopship based at Folkestone, and sailing back and forth over the English Channel. She survived the war and returned to cross channel civilian service until she was scrapped in 1922.

Soldiers carried

Folkestone to France 2 November 1916

• † David Edward Bromley
• Ernest Henry Chisholm
• Herbert Dunbar Cousens
• Paul Henzell Hemy
• † Reginald Peter Lewis
• † Frederick James Powell
• John Henry Wilkinson

Folkestone to France 3 November 1916

• Ernest Alfred (Jack) Lewis

Folkestone to France 28 November 1916

• Charles Fielder
• Sidney Herrick Carter
• † George Andrew King
• † Joseph Scott
• † William Paul (Layton) Walton

Folkestone to France 14 December 1916

• George Edward Binns
• Walter Hayward

Folkestone to Étaples 2 January 1917

• † Mark D'Esterre Brady
• George Turner

Folkestone to Étaples 8 January 1917

• Norman Alfred Constantine

Folkestone to Étaples 16 January 1917

• † Thomas Joseph Sheehan