SS Normandy (1910)
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Name | SS Normandy |
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Port of registry | |
Builder | Earle's Shipbuilding, Hull |
Launched | 12 May 1910 |
Out of service | 25 January 1918 |
Fate | Torpedoed and sunk |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | 618 gross register tons (GRT) |
Length | 192 feet (59 m) |
Beam | 29.2 feet (8.9 m) |
Draught | 14.1 feet (4.3 m) |
SS Normandy was a passenger vessel built for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1910.[1]
History[]
She was built by Earle’s Shipbuilding in Hull and launched on 12 May 1910[2] and christened Normandy by Mrs. Funnell.
She was sold by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway to the London and South Western Railway in 1912.
The passenger ship was torpedoed and sunk on 25 January 1918 in the English Channel 8 nautical miles (15 km) east by north of the , Manche, France (49°46′N 1°44′W / 49.767°N 1.733°W) by SM U-90 with the loss of fourteen lives.[3]
References[]
- ^ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
- ^ "There was yesterday launched…". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. England. 13 May 1910. Retrieved 1 December 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Helgason, Guðmundur. "Ships hit during WWI: Normandy". German and Austrian U-boats of World War I - Kaiserliche Marine - Uboat.net. Retrieved 22 October 2012.
Categories:
- 1910 ships
- Steamships of the United Kingdom
- Ships of the London and South Western Railway
- Ships of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway
- Ships built on the Humber
- Maritime incidents in 1918
- Ships sunk by German submarines in World War I
- World War I shipwrecks in the English Channel