HMS Princess Beatrix HMS Princess Beatrix HMS "Princess Beatrix" was a commando troop ship of the Royal Navy during the Second World War. Built as a civilian passenger liner in 1939 by De Schelde at Vlissingen, she was named the MS "Prinses Beatrix", after Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands, and operated by Stoomvaart Maatschappij Zeeland (SMZ) (The Zealand Steamship Company) between Flushing and Harwich, along with her sister ship, MS "Koningin Emma". After fleeing to Britain after the German invasion in 1940, she was requisitioned by the British Ministry of War Transport, renamed HMS "Princess Beatrix" and converted to a troopship at Harland
Beatrix Christian She has worked as a writer for the Sydney Theatre since 2001 and, in addition to her own work, has adapted other plays, including Ibsen's "A Doll's House". Christian wrote the screenplay for the 2006 Ray Lawrence film "Jindabyne", which she adapted from the short story, "So Much Water So Close to Home", by Raymond Carver. She worked on the 2018 TV mini-series, "Picnic at Hanging Rock", as script writer for four episodes and script producer for all six. Beatrix Christian Beatrix Christian is an Australian playwright and screenwriter. Beatrix Christian graduated from National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1991,