TSS St David (1947)

History
Name	1947-1971: TSS St David; 1971-????: TSS Holyhead;
Operator	1947-1948:Great Western Railway; 1948-1971:British Railways;
Port of registry
Route	1947-1969: Fishguard - Rosslare; 1969-1971: Holyhead - Dun Laoghaire;
Builder	Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
Yard number	1185
Launched	6 February 1947
General characteristics
Tonnage	3,352 gross register tons (GRT)

TSS St David was a passenger vessel built for the Great Western Railway in 1947.^[1]

History

TSS St David was built by Cammell Laird in 1947 as one of a pair of vessels with TSS St Patrick. St David was launched on 6 February 1947 by the Countess of Dudley, wife of the deputy chairman of the Great Western Railway.^[2] She entered service at Fishguard in July 1947.

In 1969 she was transferred to the Holyhead to Dun Laoghaire service. In 1971 she was sold to a Greek owner and was renamed Holyhead.

^ 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)
^ "New G.W.R. Cross-Channel Vessels". Western Gazette. England. 7 February 1947. Retrieved 15 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)