SEPTEMBER 1936, and the latest vessel to be launched at the Clydeholm yard of Barclay Curle in Whiteinch, was the motorship Queen Victoria, the second of three motor-driven cargo ships to be built for Thomas Dunlop and Sons, Glasgow. Present at the launch were members of the Dunlop family, including (pictured) Sir Thomas Dunlop, his son Thomas and grand-daughter Dorothy, who performed the naming ceremony. The ship, with a deadweight carrying capacity of 9,200 tons, was being built to the highest class of regulations, being equipped with comfortable cargo-handling facilities, and accommodation of a “very high standard” for the captain, officers and engineers.
Unfortunately, the vessel did not enjoy a long life; the Clydeships website records it as having been torpedoed on June 28, 1942, by a Japanese submarine in the Indian Ocean, while sailing from Table Bay to Aden with government stores. All of her crew of 48 were lost.
The Wrecksite webpage, however, says it was reported that one member did escape and wrote to a relative saying he was now a prisoner of war.
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