H.M.S. Ulster Queen
F.118
1941
(Argonaut AR-1294)
- Class: Auxiliary Antiaircraft Vessel (Sea-Going)
- Displacement: 3,791 gross tons
- Dimensions: 359 x 46 x 19 ft.
- Machinery: 2-shaft Burmeister & Wain diesels, B.H.P. 4,155 = 18 knots
- Armament: 6-4 in. A.A. (3x2), 8-2 pdr. A.A. (2x4), 10-20mm
- Complement:
- Builder: Harland & Wolff, Belfast
- Launched: 28 Mar 1929
- Completed: 1930
- Commissioned: 1940
- Notes: MV Ulster Queen was a passenger ferry built for the Belfast Steamship Co operqting across the Irish Sea from 1930 to WW2. Requisitioned by the Royal Navy and converted to an auxiliary antiaircraft vessel. Served on Russian convoys, in the Mediterranean, and in the Far East. Became a fighter direction ship in 1943. Paid off 1 Apr 1946, she did not return to civilian service and was laid up until scrapped in 1950.
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