SS Cambridge (1886)

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History
Name
  • 1886–1919: TSS Cambridge
  • 1919–1922: TSS Gul Nehad
  • 1922–1937: TSS Gulnihal
Operator
  • 1886–1912: Great Eastern Railway
  • 1912–1919: Anglo-Ottoman Steamship Company
  • 1919–1922: Administration de Navire a Vapeur Ottomane, Galatea, Constantinople
  • 1922–1937: ?
Port of registry Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
Route1886–1912: Harwich to Rotterdam and Antwerp
Builder Earle's Shipbuilding, Hull
Launched11 October 1886
Out of service1937
FateScrapped 1937
General characteristics
Tonnage1,194  gross register tons  (GRT)
Length280.5 feet (85.5 m)
Beam31 feet (9.4 m)
Depth15.2 feet (4.6 m)
Speed14.5 knots

TSS Cambridge was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1886. [1]

History

The ship was built by Earle's Shipbuilding in Hull for the Great Eastern Railway and launched on 11 October 1886. [2] She was launched by the Mayor of Cambridge (Mr. W. B. Redfern), accompanied by the Deputy-Mayor (Mr. Alderman Deck).

She was placed on the Harwich to Hook of Holland route. [3]

She was sold in 1912 to the Anglo-Ottoman Steamship Company. In 1919 she was acquired by the Administration de Navire a Vapeur Ottomane, Galatea, Constantinople and renamed Gul Nehad. She was sold again in 1922 and renamed Gulnihad. She was scrapped in 1937.

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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. "Launch of the steamship "Cambridge"" . Cambridge Independent Press. England. 16 October 1886. 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.