SS Copenhagen (1907)
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Name | TSS Copenhagen |
Operator | Great Eastern Railway |
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Route | Harwich to Hook of Holland |
Builder | John Brown, Clydebank |
Yard number | 384 |
Launched | 22 October 1907 |
Fate | Torpedoed and sunk, 5 March 1917 |
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Tonnage | 2,570 gross register tons (GRT) |
Length | 331.3 feet (101.0 m) |
Beam | 43 feet (13 m) |
Depth | 17.9 feet (5.5 m) |
Speed | 22 knots |
TSS Copenhagen was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1907.[1]
History[]
The ship was built by John Brown of Clydebank for the Great Eastern Railway as one of a contract for three new steamers and launched on 22 October 1907.[2] She was launched by Miss Ida Hamilton, daughter of the Chairman of the Great Eastern Railway Company.
She was placed on the Harwich to Hook of Holland route.[3]
On 5 March 1917 she was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea 8 nautical miles (15 km) east of the Noord Hinder Lightship by SM UC-61 with the loss of six lives.[4]
References[]
- ^ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
- ^ "A New Railway Steamship. Launch from the Clydebank Yard". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. England. 23 October 1907. Retrieved 31 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Haws, Duncan (1993). Merchant Fleets – Britain's Railway Steamers – Eastern and North Western Companies + Zeeland and Stena. Hereford: TCL Publications. ISBN 0-946378-22-3.
- ^ "Copenhagen". Uboat.net. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
Categories:
- 1907 ships
- Steamships of the United Kingdom
- Ships built on the River Clyde
- Ships of the Great Eastern Railway
- Maritime incidents in 1917
- Ships sunk by German submarines in World War I
- World War I shipwrecks in the North Sea