TSS Slieve Bloom (1908)
History | |
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Name | 1908–1918: TSS Slieve Bloom |
Owner | 1908–1918: London and North Western Railway |
Operator | 1908–1918: London and North Western Railway |
Port of registry | |
Builder | Vickers, Sons & Maxim Ltd, Barrow-in-Furness |
Launched | 1908 |
Out of service | 31 March 1918 |
Fate | Sunk |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | 1,166 gross register tons (GRT) |
Length | 299.5 ft (91.3 m) |
Beam | 37.2 ft (11.3 m) |
Draught | 14.1 ft (4.3 m) |
TSS Slieve Bloom was a twin screw steamer cargo vessel operated by the London and North Western Railway from 1908 to 1918.[1]
History[]
She was built by Vickers, Sons & Maxim Ltd of Barrow-in-Furness for the London and North Western Railway in 1908. She was named after the Slieve Bloom Mountains in Ireland. She was very similar in specification to her sister ship, Slieve Gallion.
She sank near South Stack lighthouse in a collision with the USS Stockton,[why?] a US destroyer on 31 March 1918, with the loss of all of her cargo, 370 cattle, 12 horses, general goods and railway rolling stock. The passengers evacuated to lifeboats and were later picked up by a sister ship and taken to Liverpool. There was one life lost, of a passenger whose cabin was close to the point of impact. The destroyer put into Liverpool for repairs to her bow.
References[]
- ^ Railway and Other Steamers, Duckworth. 1962
- 1908 ships
- Passenger ships of the United Kingdom
- Steamships
- Ships built in Barrow-in-Furness
- Ships of the London and North Western Railway
- Maritime incidents in 1918
- Ships sunk in collisions
- World War I shipwrecks in the Irish Sea