Author Topic: Ship Name  (Read 225 times)

Offline Oldhasbeen

  • RootsChat Extra
  • **
  • Posts: 37
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Ship Name
« on: Thursday 26 October 23 07:15 BST (UK) »
Can anyone decipher the highlighted ship name in the attached?

Thanks!

Offline Neale1961

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 5,668
    • View Profile
Re: Ship Name
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 26 October 23 07:30 BST (UK) »
Philoctetes
Milligan - Jardine – Glencross – Dinwoodie - Brown: (Dumfriesshire & Kirkcudbrightshire)
Clark – Faulds – Cuthbertson – Bryson – Wilson: (Ayrshire & Renfrewshire)
Neale – Cater – Kinder - Harrison: (Warwickshire & Queensland)
Roberts - Spry: (Cornwall, Middlesex & Queensland)
Munster: (Schleswig-Holstein & Queensland) and Plate: (Braunschweig, Neubruck & Queensland & New York)

Offline steviebyday

  • RootsChat Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 167
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Ship Name
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 26 October 23 18:42 BST (UK) »
  H M S Philoctetes. Destroyer, Depot Ship,
                              launched may 1922. 16600 tons.
                               scrapped Newport Nov 1948.