SS Felixstowe (1918)

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History
Name:
  • 1918-1950:SS Felixstowe
  • 1950-1957:SS Kylemore
Operator:
Port of registry: Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
Builder: Hawthorne and Company, Leith
Launched: 1918
General characteristics
Tonnage: 892  gross register tons  (GRT)
Length: 215.1 feet (65.6 m)
Beam: 33.2 feet (10.1 m)
Depth: 16 feet (4.9 m)

SS Felixstowe was a cargo vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1918. [1]

Great Eastern Railway pre-grouping British railway company

The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia. The company was grouped into the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923.

History

The ship was built by Hawthorn and Company of Leith and launched in 1918. She was taken over by the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923.

London and North Eastern Railway British “Big 4” railway company, active 1923–1947

The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second largest of the "Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain. It operated from 1 January 1923 until nationalisation on 1 January 1948. At that time, it was divided into the new British Railways' Eastern Region, North Eastern Region, and partially the Scottish Region.

In 1942 she was requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted to a wreck dispersal vessel at Deptford. She increased in tonnage from 892 to 1,200. She was renamed HMS Colchester and put on duty at Sheerness.

She was acquired by British Railways in 1948. In 1950 she was sold to the Limerick Steamship Company and renamed Kylemore. [2]

She was broken up in Rotterdam in 1957. [3]

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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 Nautical Magazine. 165-166. 1951. p. 139.|access-date= requires |url= (help)
  3. ↑ Sea Breezes. 25. 1958. p. 140.|access-date= requires |url= (help)
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