TrSS Londonderry (1904)

TrSS Londonderry was a passenger vessel built for the Midland Railway in 1904.[1]

History
Name:
  • 1904-1927:TrSS Londonderry
  • 1927-1937:TrSS Flamand
Operator:
Port of registry:
Builder: William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton
Yard number: 727
Launched: 29 April 1904
Out of service: 1937
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage: 2,086 gross register tons (GRT)
Length: 330.5 feet (100.7 m)
Beam: 42.05 feet (12.82 m)
Speed: 20 knots

History

TrSS Londonderry was designed by the Messrs Bilee Gray and Co, naval architects to the Midland Railway and built by William Denny and Brothers of Dumbarton. She was launched on 29 April 1904 by Mrs Tilney, daughter of Sir Ernest Paget, Chairman of the Midland Railway.[2] She was the first ship equipped with Lodge-Muirhead wireless telegraphy.

She was requisitioned by the Admiralty in 1914.

In 1923 she came into the ownership of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway when they acquired the Midland Railway.

In 1927 they sold her to Société Anonyme de Gérance et d'Armement who renamed her Flamand.[3]

She was scrapped at Altenwerder, Germany in 1937.[4]

References
  1. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
  2. "The Midland Railway Channel Boats. Launch of a Turbine Steamer". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. Yorkshire. 30 April 1904. Retrieved 17 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. Haws, Duncan (1993). Merchant Fleets-Britain's Railway Steamers – Eastern & North Western Companies + Zeeland and Stena. Hereford: TCL Publications. p. 118. ISBN 0-946378-22-3.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  4. "1116017". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 15 December 2009.
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