TSS Carlotta (1893)

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Carlotta in 1905
History
Name1893-1930:TSS Carlotta
Operator
Port of registryUnited Kingdom
BuilderA.W. Richardson and Company, London
Launched1893
Out of service1930
General characteristics
Tonnage261 gross register tons (GRT)
Length124.6 feet (38.0 m)
Beam32.4 feet (9.9 m)
Draught7.6 feet (2.3 m)

TSS Carlotta was a passenger vessel built for the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway in 1892.

History[]

TSS Carlotta was built by A.W. Richardson and Company, London as Yard No.70 for the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway as a Gravesend-Tilbury Ferry.[1][2] She was their first twin-screw vessel. She was launched in 1893.

She was acquired by the Midland Railway in 1912 and by the London Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923 as the railway changed hands.

In 1930 the ferry was reported to have been scrapped.[3] However, she was resold to the Essex Yacht Club and became their floating clubhouse at Leigh-on-Sea.[2][4]

On 1 February 1941 Carlotta was requisitioned by the Admiralty as a depot ship for the auxiliary patrol service, and renamed Gypsy (the name of her predecessor as clubhouse at Leigh-on-Sea).[4][5] She was sunk by aircraft bombing off Tower Pier, London on 11 May 1941.[2][5]

References[]

  1. ^ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
  2. ^ a b c "1101964". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  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.
  4. ^ a b "Past Ships Photos". Leigh-on-Sea: Essex Yacht Club. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  5. ^ a b Colledge, J J (1970). Ships of the Royal Navy - An Historical Index, Vol.2. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. p. 159.
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