s.s. 'Solway Prince' - Plan of Midship Section for Solway Prince - 25th November 1889.

The vessel was built by the Penarth Ship Building and Shiprepairing Company Limited, the above drawing having been date-stamped the 25th November 1889 and initialed RM?, the company manager at that date was Mr. Robert Monroe. The vessel was an iron screw steamer of 111 Gross Register Tonnage and registered to the Port of Whitehaven during April 1890. Her formal date of registry was 25th August 1890.

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She was owned by William Postethwaithe of Willom, Cumberland according to the Mercantile Navy List for 1900. The same list for 1910, however, states that her owners were The Manchester, Liverpool and North Wales Steamship Company Limited with offices at 4, Albert Buildings, 12, Preeson's Row, Liverpool. [630]

1917 - The s.s. 'Solway Prince' was owned at the time of her loss by the Channel Transport Limited. On the 27th June 1917, whilst en-route from Poole to Jersey in ballast, she was captured and sunk by a German submarine north of Alderney in the Channel Island. There were no recorded crew losses.