SS Sarnia (1910)
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| Operator: | London and South Western Railway |
| Port of registry: |
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| Builder: | Cammell Laird, Birkenhead |
| Yard number: | 765 |
| Launched: | 1910 |
| Out of service: | 12 September 1918 |
| Fate: | Torpedoed and sunk |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage: | 1,498 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Length: | 284.6 feet (86.7 m) |
| Beam: | 39.1 feet (11.9 m) |
| Draught: | 15.8 feet (4.8 m) |
TrSS Sarnia was a passenger vessel built for the London and South Western Railway in 1910.[1]
History
She was built by Cammell Laird in Birkenhead and launched in 1910. She was one of a pair of ships ordered by the London and South Western Railway, the other being Caesarea. They were the first turbine steamers ordered by the railway company. They were deployed on the route to the Channel Islands for a few years until the outbreak of the First World War.
She was requisitioned by the Admiralty in the First World War and reconfigured as an armed boarding steamer HMS Sarnia. On 28 October 1915 she ran into the auxiliary minesweeper HMS Hythe which sank in the Dardanelles with the loss of 154 lives.[2]
She was sunk in the Mediterranean Sea off Alexandria, Egypt (31°58′N 30°55′E / 31.967°N 30.917°E) by SM U-65 with the loss of 55 crew.[3]
References
- ↑ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
- ↑ "David Reginald Salomons, First World War hero". Canterbury Christ Church University. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
- ↑ Helgason, Guðmundur. "Ships hit during WWI: Sarnia". German and Austrian U-boats of World War I - Kaiserliche Marine - Uboat.net. Retrieved 17 October 2012.
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