Beatrix Canal apparent to the Dutch throne, Princess Beatrix. Beatrix Canal The Beatrix Canal (Dutch: "Beatrixkanaal") is an 8.4 km long canal in the southern Netherlands. It was constructed to provide the city of Eindhoven with access to the Wilhelmina Canal. In order to be able to regulate the level of the Gender and Dommel streams, which regularly threatened to flood Eindhoven's inner city, an additional Discharge Canal ("Afwateringskanaal"), which is not open to navigation, was dug to connect the Beatrix Canal and the Dommel stream. Into this branch, the Gender now discharges. Upon completion, the canal was named in honour of
HMS Princess Beatrix 14 February 1942 "Princess Beatrix" left Freetown, and returned to England for refitting, after which she was reclassified as a landing ship, infantry (medium). In April 1942 "Princess Beatrix" was selected to take part in a raid on the French coast at Dieppe. On the evening of 18 August 1942 a fleet of more than 200 ships sailed across the Channel. "Princess Beatrix" and the British ship landed men of the South Saskatchewan Regiment on "Green Beach" to the west of Dieppe at Pourville. However, the raid was not a success, and the losses were high. "Princess Beatrix" sustained slight