SS Bruges (1920)
History | |
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Name | TSS Bruges |
Operator |
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Port of registry | |
Route | Harwich to Antwerp |
Builder | John Brown, Clydebank |
Yard number | 494 |
Launched | 20 March 1920 |
Out of service | 11 June 1940 |
Fate | Bombed and Sunk |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | 2,949 gross register tons (GRT) |
Length | 321.6 feet (98.0 m) |
Beam | 43.1 feet (13.1 m) |
TSS Bruges was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1920.[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 20 March 1920.[2] She was launched by Lady Thornton
She was placed on the Harwich to Antwerp route.[3]
In 1923 she was acquired by the London and North Eastern Railway.
She was requisitioned during the World War II as a troop transport ship and bombed and damaged on 11 June 1940 at Le Havre by Luftwaffe aircraft. She was beached to prevent her from sinking.[4]
References
- ^ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
- ^ "New Railway Steamer". Cambridge Daily News. England. 22 March 1920. Retrieved 31 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ 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.
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(help) - ^ "Bruges Ferry 1920-1940)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 11 June 2013.