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Southern Pride

British whaling ship

Field	Value
display_title	ital
section1	{{Infobox ship/image
image	Southern Pride, after RN conversion.jpg
image_caption	Southern Pride, after Royal Navy conversion.
section2	{{Infobox ship/career
name	Southern Pride,
owner	Southern Whaling and Sealing Company, London (1936–1940), Admiralty (1940–44)
builder	Smiths Dock Company
launched	1936
in_service	1936–1944
fate	Wrecked near Freetown, 16 June 1944
section3	{{Infobox ship/characteristics
tonnage
length	160 ft
beam
power	Steam
speed	15.25 kn
crew	30

Southern Pride was a steam-powered whaler built by the Smiths Dock Company of Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, in 1936. She was the initial design inspiration for the s used to escort convoys in the North Atlantic in World War II. The final design for the Flower class was significantly modified from that of Southern Pride factoring in things like ease of construction.

After World War II began Southern Pride was requisitioned by the Royal Navy, and converted into a warship. Her conversion took six weeks and cost 75,000 pounds. She was wrecked off Freetown in June 1944.

References

|author-link=Richard Woodman

|access-date=7 February 2010

References

[http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?141835 "Southern Pride HMS (K 249)"], wrecksite.eu
(1991). "The Whaler and the Corvette". Warship.

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