SS Immingham (1906)
History | |
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Operator: | Great Central Railway |
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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 |
TrSS Immingham was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Great Central Railway in 1906.[1]
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.
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]
References
- ↑ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
- ↑ "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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