SS Immingham (1906)

TrSS Immingham was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Great Central Railway in 1906.[1]

The Immingham, by A. J. Jansen
History
Name:
  • 1906-1915:TrSS Immingham
  • 1915:HMS Immingham
Operator: Great Central Railway
Builder: Swan Hunter, Wallsend
Yard number: 769
Launched: 8 May 1906
Fate: Sunk in collision 6 June 1915
General characteristics
Tonnage: 2,009 gross register tons (GRT)
Length: 271 feet (83 m)
Beam: 41.2 feet (12.6 m)
Depth: 20.4 feet (6.2 m)
Installed power: 1300 nhp
Propulsion: 3 Parsons steam turbines

History

The ship was built by Swan Hunter of Wallsend and launched on 8 May 1906. She was one of an order for two ships, the other being Marylebone.

The Parsons steam turbines of Immingham and Marylebone were direct-drive units that proved uneconomic, and both vessels were soon rebuilt as single-screw steamships with the funnels of each reduced in number from two to one.

She was requisitioned in 1915 by the Admiralty for Royal Navy use as a stores carrier and renamed HMS Immingham. She sank on 6 June 1915 after a collision with the boom defence vessel HMS Reindeer in the Mediterranean Sea.[2]

The Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre has in its collection a painting by A.J. Jansen of Immingham as a single-screw steamer.

References
  1. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
  2. "BRITISH NAVAL VESSELS LOST AT SEA Part 1 of 2 - Abadol (oiler) to Lynx (destroyer)". Naval History. Retrieved 2 February 2013.
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