HS Koningin Regentes in World War1 Camouflage Paint at Folkestone Harbour
The ship was built as the paddle steamer PSS Koningin Regentes at the Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd. shipyard in Govan, Scotland, in 1895. and worked as a ferry boat between the Netherlands and the United Kingdom until the outbreak of WW1, when she was refitted with special accommodations and repainted for service as a hospital ship. Her name was therefore also changed to HS Koningin Regentes. The Koningin Regentes now served on a new route between Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and Boston, Lincolnshire, England, and operated on this route for nearly the entire war. She was torpedoed by the Imperial German Navy submarine SM UB-107 on 6 June 1918 and sank shortly afterwards. Seven people lost their lives in the sinking
ROMA ID: 035015E