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TSS Great Western (1933)

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History
Name1933–1966: TSS Great Western
Operator
Port of registryUnited Kingdom
BuilderCammell Laird, Birkenhead
Yard number998
Launched21 November 1933
Out of service1966
FateScrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage1,600 gross register tons (GRT)
Length282.75 feet (86.18 m)
Beam40.33 feet (12.29 m)
Draught16.07 feet (4.90 m)
Installed power306 hp
Speed14 kts

TSS Great Western was a passenger vessel built for the Great Western Railway in 1933.[1]

History

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She was built in 1933 to replace an earlier ship of the same name, which had operated the Fishguard to Rosslare route since 1902. She was launched on 21 November 1933 by Lady Cadman,[2] wife of Sir John Cadman, a director of the Great Western Railway, and had an experimental type of coal firing with mechanical stokers and a forced draught system, intended to be more economical than oil.[3]

From April to August in 1944, she acted as a troop ship, but returned to service and continued until 1966 when the service was abandoned

References

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  1. ^ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
  2. ^ "Lady Cadman". Hull Daily Mail. Hull. 22 November 1933. Retrieved 14 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ^ "Firm's largest wages bill for three years". Nottingham Evening Post. Nottingham. 22 November 1933. Retrieved 14 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.