RMS Antwerp (1919)

RMS Antwerp, by A. J. Jansen
History
Name	TSS Antwerp
Operator	1920–1923: Great Eastern Railway 1923–1948: London and North Eastern Railway 1948–1951: British Railways
Route	Harwich to Antwerp
Builder	John Brown, Clydebank
Yard number	493
Launched	26 October 1919
Acquired	March 1920 [1]
Out of service	4 May 1951
Fate	Scrapped 1951
General characteristics
Tonnage	2,957  gross register tons  (GRT)
Length	330 feet (100 m)
Beam	43 feet (13 m)
Draught	18 feet (5.5 m)

TSS Antwerp was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway completed in 1920. ^[2]

History

Antwerp on the river Scheldt

The ship was built by John Brown of Clydebank for the Great Eastern Railway as one of a contract for two new steamers and launched on 26 October 1919. ^[3] In March 1920 she was placed on the Harwich to Antwerp route. ^[4]

In 1923 she was acquired by the London and North Eastern Railway. On 20 November 1932 she collided with the American steamer Hastings in a thick fog off Zeebrugge, but was only lightly damaged, and able to continue her voyage. ^[5]

She served as a Q-ship in World War I. ^[6]

She was acquired by British Railways in 1948 and scrapped in 1951 at Milford Haven.

References

1. Dover Ferry Photos
2. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
3. "A geared turbine steamer" . Chelmsford Chronicle. England. 31 October 1919. Retrieved 31 October 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
4. 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.
5. "Steamers collide in fog" . Edinburgh Evening News. Scotland. 21 November 1932. Retrieved 31 October 2015– via British Newspaper Archive.
6. Gibson, R. H.; Prendergast, Maurice (2002). German Submarine War 1914–1918. Periscope Publishing. p. 47. ISBN   9781904381082.