SS Copenhagen (1907)

TSS Copenhagen was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1907.[1]

History
United Kingdom
Name: TSS Copenhagen
Operator: Great Eastern Railway
Port of registry:
Route: Harwich to Hook of Holland
Builder: John Brown, Clydebank
Yard number: 384
Launched: 22 October 1907
Fate: Torpedoed and sunk, 5 March 1917
General characteristics
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

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
  1. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
  2. "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.
  3. 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  4. "Copenhagen". Uboat.net. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
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