SS Copenhagen (1907)
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| History | |
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| Name | TrSS Copenhagen |
| Operator | Great Eastern Railway |
| Port of registry |  |
| Route | Harwich to Hook of Holland |
| Builder | John Brown, Clydebank |
| Yard number | 384 |
| Launched | 22 October 1907 |
| Fate | Torpedoed and sunk 5 March 1917 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 2,570 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Length | 331.3 feet (101.0 m) |
| Beam | 43 feet (13 m) |
| Depth | 17.9 feet (5.5 m) |
| Speed | 22 knots |
TrSS Copenhagen was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1907.[1]
History
The ship was built by John Brown of Clydebank for the Great Eastern Railway as one of a contract for three new steamers and launched on 22 October 1907.[2] She was launched by Miss Ida Hamilton, daughter of the Chairman of the Great Eastern Railway Company.
She was placed on the Harwich to Hook of Holland route.[3]
On 5 March 1917 she was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea 8 nautical miles (15 km) east of the Noord Hinder Lightship by SM UC-61 with the loss of six lives.[4]
References
- ^ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons,.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters:|dead-url=and|subscription=(help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) - ^ "A New Railway Steamship. Launch from the Clydebank Yard". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. England. 23 October 1907. Retrieved 31 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|subscription=ignored (|url-access=suggested) (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.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - ^ "Copenhagen". Uboat.net. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
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