TrSS St David (1906)

History
Name:
  • 1906-1932: TrSS St David
  • 1932-1933: TrSS Rosslare
Operator: 1906-1933: Great Western Railway
Port of registry: United Kingdom
Route: 1906-1932: Fishguard - Rosslare
Builder: John Brown and Company
Yard number: 370
Launched: 25 January 1906[1]
Out of service: September 1933
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage: 2,529 gross register tons (GRT)
Length: 350.8 feet (106.9 m)
Beam: 41.1 feet (12.5 m)
Propulsion: Triple-screw with Parsons’ direct-drive turbines
Speed: 23 knots

TrSS St David was a passenger vessel built for the Great Western Railway in 1906.[2]

History

She was built by John Brown and Company for the Great Western Railway as one of a trio of new ships which included TrSS St George and TrSS St Patrick.[3]

From 1914 to 1919 she was requisitioned by the British Government as a hospital ship for the duration of the First World War.

She was re-engined in 1925.

On 20 August 1927 she was in collision with her sister ship TrSS St Patrick in Fishguard harbour.[4]

In 1932 she was renamed Rosslare, to allow for a successor vessel to be named St Patrick. She was scrapped in September 1933.

References

  1. "Turbine Steamer launched on the Clyde". Edinburgh Evening News. Edinburgh. 26 January 1906. Retrieved 13 October 2015 via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
  2. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons,.
  3. "Irish Channel Steamers". Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser. Manchester. 15 January 1906. Retrieved 13 October 2015 via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
  4. "Irish Mail Boats in Collision Outside FIshguard". Derby Daily Telegraph. Derby. 20 August 1927. Retrieved 13 October 2015 via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
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