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| History | |
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| Name | TSS Bruges |
| Operator |
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| Port of registry |  |
| Route | Harwich to Antwerp |
| Builder | John Brown, Clydebank |
| Yard number | 494 |
| Launched | 20 March 1920 |
| Fate | Bombed and sunk 11 June 1940 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 2,949 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Length | 321.6 feet (98.0 m) |
| Beam | 43.1 feet (13.1 m) |
TSS Bruges was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1920. [1]
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 20 March 1920. [2] She was launched by Lady Thornton
She was placed on the Harwich to Antwerp route. [3]
In 1923 she was acquired by the London and North Eastern Railway.
She was requisitioned during the World War II as a troopship. She took part in Operation Cycle (the evacuation of Allied troops from Le Havre) and bombed and damaged on 11 June 1940 at Le Havre by Luftwaffe aircraft. She was beached to prevent her from sinking. [4]
SS La Touraine was an ocean liner that sailed for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique from the 1890s to the 1920s. Built in France in 1891, she was primarily employed in transatlantic service on the North Atlantic. The liner was scrapped in Dunkirk in October 1923.
TSS Scotia was a twin screw steamer passenger vessel operated by the London and North Western Railway from 1921 to 1923, and the London, Midland and Scottish Railway from 1923 to 1940.
SS Titan was a tugboat and tender operated by the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique from 1894 to 1957. She was originally built as the TSS Cambria for the London and North Western Railway in 1889.
SS Snaefell (IV), the fourth ship in the company's history to be so named, was a packet steamer originally owned and operated by G. and J. Burns, who sold her to the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company in 1920.
SS Mersey was a freight vessel built for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1906.
SS Equity was a freight vessel built for the Co-operative Wholesale Society Limited in 1888.
TSS Vienna was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1894.
TSS Copenhagen was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1907.
TrSS Munich was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1908.
PS Claud Hamilton was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1875.
TSS Norwich was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1883.
PS Lady Tyler was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1880.
PS Essex was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1896.
TSS Train Ferry No. 2 was a freight vessel built for the British Army War Office in 1917.
TSS Malines was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1921.
TSS Amsterdam was a passenger and freight vessel built for the London and North Eastern Railway in 1930.
TSS Normannia was a passenger vessel built for the London and South Western Railway in 1911.
TSS Hantonia was a passenger vessel built for the London and South Western Railway in 1911.
PS Waverley was a Clyde-built paddle steamer that carried passengers on the Clyde between 1899 and 1939. She was requisitioned by the Admiralty to serve as a minesweeper during World War I and again in World War II, and was sunk while participating in the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940. The current PS Waverley, launched in 1946, was built as a replacement for this vessel.
SS Minotaure was a steamer built for the British Royal Navy in 1918 and operated as a tender by the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique from 1929 to 1940; and from 1948 to 1958.
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