As submarine Depot Ship

During WW II

PATRICIA (Depot Ship)
Displacement: 4.950 tons.
Dimensions: 102,10 x 14,33 x 6,09 m.
Guns: 8-40 mm AA, 2-20 mm AA.
Machinery: Triple expansion. 2 shaft, 2.900 ihp.
Boilers: 2 oil fired.
Speed: 15 knots.
Complement: accomodation for 500.

Patricia (II) was built in 1926 at Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, U.K. as the Byron Line steamer Patris II. They sailed on a route Marseille-Genoa-Piraeus-Alexandria-Cyprus-Beirut, similar to that which fleetmates Suecia and Britannia later sailed for Hellenic Mediterranean Lines. In 1935, Patris II was sold to Swedish Lloyd, and was renamed Patricia (II). After rebuilding by Eriksbergs of Gothenburg, she entered service on Gothenburg-London summer service. She was laid up at the start of World War II, and sold to the Swedish Government in 1940. In 1941 she was converted into a submarine depot ship. She was stricken in 1971.Sold 1972 to Allan Nilsson AB, Ystad and renamed GELE.
Scrapped in W. Germany 1972.

(After 1942)

SVENSKSUND (Fishery Patrol Vessel)
Svensksund-class (former 1st-class gunboat)
Build at: Kockums M.V. AB, Malmö, Sweden.
Launched: 1891.
Commissioned: 1892.
Modernized: 1915.
1929: Rebuild to a Fishery Patrol vessel
1942: Reconstructed to a Surveying Vessel.
1962: Stricken, later sold and broken up