SS Amsterdam (1894)

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History
NameTSS Amsterdam
Operator
Builder Earle's Shipbuilding, Hull
Launched24 January 1894
Out of service1928
FateScrapped 1928
General characteristics
Tonnage1,745  gross register tons  (GRT)
Length302.4 feet (92.2 m)
Beam36 feet (11 m)
Depth16.2 feet (4.9 m)

TSS Amsterdam was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1894. [1]

History

The ship was built by Earle's Shipbuilding, Hull for the Great Eastern Railway and launched on 24 January 1894. [2] She was launched by Mrs. Van Hasselt, wife of one of the Directors of the Holland Railway. Many members of Amsterdam Town Council were present at the launch, which showed the importance of this new service to the city. She was the second vessel launched that year by the Great Eastern Railway after the Berlin on 10 January 1894.

Initially placed on the Harwich to Hook of Holland route she was transferred to the Antwerp service in 1910. [3]

In 1923 she fell under the ownership of the London and North Eastern Railway. She was scrapped in 1928.

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References

  1. ↑ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
  2. ↑ "The Great Eastern Railway Company's Continental Fleet" . Essex Standard. England. 27 January 1864. Retrieved 30 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.
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