RMS Antwerp (1919)
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name: | TSS Antwerp |
| Operator: |
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| Port of registry: |
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| Route: | Harwich to Antwerp |
| Builder: | John Brown, Clydebank |
| Yard number: | 493 |
| Launched: | 26 October 1919 |
| Out of service: | 4 May 1951 |
| Fate: | Scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage: | 2,957 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Length: | 330 feet (100 m) |
| Beam: | 43 feet (13 m) |
| Draught: | 18 feet (5.5 m) |
TSS Antwerp was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1919.[1]
History
The ship was built by John Brown of Clydebank for the Great Eastern Railway as one of a contract for two new steamers and launched on 26 October 1919.[2] She was placed on the Harwich to Antwerp route.[3]
In 1923 she was acquired by the London and North Eastern Railway. On 20 November 1932 she collided with the American steamer Hastings in a thick fog off Zeebrugge, but was only lightly damaged, and able to continue her voyage.[4]
She served as a Q-ship in World War I.[5]
She was acquired by British Railways in 1948 and scrapped in 1951.
References
- ↑ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons,.
- ↑ "A geared turbine steamer". Chelmsford Chronicle (England). 31 October 1919. Retrieved 31 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
- ↑ Haws, Duncan (1993). Merchant Fleets – Britain's Railway Steamers – Eastern and North Western Companies + Zeeland and Stena. Hereford: TCL Publications. ISBN 0 946378 22 3.
- ↑ "Steamers collide in fog". Edinburgh Evening News (Scotland). 21 November 1932. Retrieved 31 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
- ↑ Gibson, R. H.; Prendergast, Maurice (2002). German Submarine War 1914–1918. Periscope Publishing. p. 47. ISBN 9781904381082.
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